Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people (as of 2009, see table) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.72% of the World's human population. en.wikipedia.org
Climate change is real and happening now. The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.
1 Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way Signatures: seeing adaptation in an integrated way One approach to understanding climate...
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM ENDA is one of the few truly international African NGOs whose constituency comprises African populations in urban...
Feeling Stressed: Integrating Climate Adaptation with Other Priorities in South Africa, Gina Ziervogel and Anna Taylor
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices Climate Change Adaptation from the Bottom Up: Collaboration between Malian Communities...
This short overview of climate change issues in Africa was written by Ben Smith and Anna Taylor as input to an Environment and Climate Change...
The 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) was held in Johannesburg on 7-12 June 2008.
21 April: Initial team members, contract between UNEP and OSS in progress, outline and writing assignments on wiki 29 April: Key messages from...
Lead author: Moliehi Shale 1.1. Purpose 1.2. Process 1.3. Contents Notes: AMCEN not new work, rapid collation of key material Acknowledgements:...
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Bruce Hewitson is Climatologist (if you have to give me a label), but with eclectic interests. Resident at University of Cape Town since 1992,...
The founding organisations in the Centres for Climate Adaptation are: AWhere Inc.:A spatial information and visualisation company that provides...
SEI SEI Oxford is exploring induced responses including identification and analysis of adaptation options: major contributions have been the...
This interactive user guide is being developed to produce CIRCE project deliverable D13.2.1 Foundatation paper on adaptation options and screening.
Video from fieldwork in Ga-Selala, S. Africa Examples of adaptation in action Adapting to multiple stresses in Sekhukhune, South Africa Effective...
1 See Also: Climate-related diseases are responsible for a large proportion of the global burden of disease. Human health is therefore not...
Background basics climate defines the range of weather events experienced in a region climate is a complex interconnection of many global and...
The Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, led by Bruce Hewitson, are the lead weADAPT organisation working on climate modelling and climate science.
The participant list can be downloaded: here (in case you lost your original version!) The session by session agenda of the workshop can be found here Presentations
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM, Dakar, Senegal Sen (1999) defines development as the creation of choice and lack of development as having no choice or no say in what happens.
SEI, as part of the weADAPT Group, coordinated the launch of a new climate change adaptation platform at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007.
The purpose of this page is to gather information that will be useful to Sida for conducting a quick screening of the effects of climate change...
POLICY BRIEF : Effective use of climate science to improve adaptation in Africa
IAVS offers courses in the field of climate change which include: A Masters in the management and economics of climate change; A short course...
The chart on the left shows the variation in monthly mean air temperatures for Ghana as a whole. As can be seen, incremental temperatures in...
The majority of households in the study area are considered to be very poor and vulnerable with low access to livelihood assets.
The Amazonian sub-region is highly vulnerable to temperature rise and changes in precipitation pattern. Records of average monthly temperature...
Lawrence Flint is Coordinator of Research into Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation at Environmental Development Action (ENDA), based in Dakar, Senegal.
REDIRECT Climate Capacity in Africa
This is an initial collection of our thoughts on a new vision for weADAPT. Please add your thoughts and ideas to this! The weAdapt group is a...
This table was part of the background material SEI Oxford prepared for the UNEP international consultation meeting on the development of the...
Read the information on this page Climate science, projections and interpretation and follow the links there for additional resources.
See the Briefing Page of the Climate Change Explorer for Users here Download a brief for the Climate Change Explorer here or download the tool...
The Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS) promotes collaboration within the African research community for sound scientific assessments of the...
The United Nations Environment Program provides leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and...
Activities and Context (Mission)
Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is founded in 1947 and has its headquarters in Geneva. LWF’s Department for...
To develop successful adaptation strategies it is necessary to make use of the best available science to assess climatic trends that are currently...
In dryland communities droughts are a significant cause of decreased crop production and herd size to less than the minimum required for subsistence.
Environment and Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM) is an international non-profit organisation based in Dakar, Senegal.
Even though water stress is one of the key manifestations of climate variability and change in Sekhukhune District, it is generally not perceived as a climate issue alone.
A sufficient quantity of good quality water is essential for the well-being of impoverished, and therefore, vulnerable communities.
We use the concept of a matching game, which includes pictures and "Fact Cards" to make a connection of cause and effect for each theme.
Got something you'd like to say but don't know where to put your page? This page is a collection point to create links to new pages if you don't...
Africa is considered highly vulnerable to climate change (FAO, 2004), largely because many socio-economic activities in Africa, particularly...
Introduction SEI and START are collaboratively embarking on a programme on Building Long-Term Capacity for Managing and Adapting to Climate Change in Asia and Africa.
Transformations in Risk UNU Summer Academy Sources
Food security: Linda Stephen Water Baseline Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability for Adaptation (BRAVA): Tom Downing International agencies: How to conduct a food security assessment.
Climate change is real and happening now. The average global surface temperature has warmed 0.8°C in the past century and 0.