African Climate Policy Centre

Integrating climate resilience into development plans crucial for Africa’s development

Harare, Zimbabwe, October 31, 2019 (ECA) – Integrating climate resilience into development plans ensures returns on investment in today’s and tomorrow’s climate. This requires robust data, tools and capacity, yielding a resilience dividend to attract investment in closing Africa’s gaps in infrastructure, energy, agriculture and other important sectors, says Economic Commission for Africa’s Linus Mofor.

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Intra-regional trade could be instrumental to address climate change impacts

Kigali, 24 October 2019 (ECA) -The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus Initiative (GCCA+) argues that climate change impacts threaten to undermine hard-won development gains in Africa.

According to Jane Wilkinson, Strategic Mitigation Advisor at GCCA+, “Africa’s geographic position and high climate vulnerability compounded by low adaptive capacity in most African countries, threatens agricultural production and food security across the continent”.

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Countries need to understand risk better for climate adaptation and resilience, says GFCS Head

Harare, Zimbabwe, 25 October 2019 (ECA) – With southern African countries constantly on the front lines of intensifying climate change, there is need for nations in the region to understand risk better for adaptation and climate resilience, says Filipe Lucio, Director of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).

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Climate change and disasters; time for southern Africa to develop new tools to build resilience

Harare, Zimbabwe, October 24, 2019 (ECA) – Southern Africa needs to act now and build capacity within member States to urgently build the resilience of economies in the region, infrastructures, ecosystems and communities so they can withstand impacts of climate change.

This was said Thursday by Zimbabwe’s Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Perrance Shiri, in remarks to a three-day planning workshop for climate resilient investment in reconstruction and development in cyclone affected regions of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

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