African Climate Policy Centre

Contributing to the Talanoa Dialogue: The African Climate Talks II

“One key outcome of the conference (COP 23) is the Talanoa Dialogue. Talanoa is a Fiji term for a conversation in which the people involved share ideas and resolve problems. As the sum total of the current climate targets under the Paris Agreement is not yet sufficient for limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, agreement was reached in Paris that the international community would have to raise the level of ambition over time. The Talanoa Dialogue is the trial run for this ambition mechanism.”

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Energy experts convene for Africa’s first energy modelling platform event

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 January 2018 (ECA) – The African Climate Policy Centre and its partners are hosting a two-day Energy Modelling Platform for Africa event which aims to contribute to optimized investments for the energy transition in Africa for a low-carbon, inclusive and climate-resilient development pathway for the continent.

 The specific objectives of the platform are to:

- Bring together the energy planning and modelling community in Africa to share experiences, models and data

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WP27 Impact on Household Welfare

Anthropogenic climate change will, over the coming decades, cause dramatic transformations in the biophysical systems that will afect human settlements, ecosystem services, water resources and food production, all of which are closely linked to human livelihoods (UNFCCC, 2005; IPCC, 2001; 2007; O’Brien and Leichenko, 2007; Mearns and Norton, 2010). These transformations are likely to have widespread implications for individuals, communities, regions and nations.

WP26 Synthesis Climate Change and Agriculture Production

Agriculture is vulnerable to climate change especially in Africa where several studies have shown likely negative impacts. According to IPCC ifth assessment report, climate change is impacting regional climates and ecosystems (IPCC, 2014). Climate change has continued to alter conditions for agricultural production in Africa and thus food security. These observed changes are afecting precipitation, water availability, length of growing seasons, lood risks, incidences of extreme weather events, prevalence and distribution of human diseases.

WP25 Scoping study Uganda

Research in the recent past has demonstrated that climate change has potential impact on the climate and ecosystems globally, whose resultant efects are enormous on habitants (IPCC, 2007). Accordingly to IPCC (2012), evidence exists from observations gathered since 1950 of some extreme changes in climate. Some of the extremes have changed as a result of anthropogenic inluences, including increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Economic losses from weather and climate-related disasters have increased, although with large spatial and inter-annual variability.

WP24 Scoping Paper Burundi

Burundi is a small, landlocked country whose arable land is only 36%. The country is situated between 2.3°S to 4.5°S of latitude and 28.8°E to 31°E of longitude. It borders Tanzania in the east and south, Rwanda in the north and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the west. Burundi covers about 27.834 km² of which 2,500 km² is lakes and 23,500 km² is potentially agricultural land. Its population was estimated at 8,060,000 inhabitants in 2008 (about 9.5 million in 2014). Agricultural households account for more than 90 per cent, and 51 per cent of the total population are women.

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