Addressing Climate Adaptation Challenges in Africa
Africa faces gaps and barriers in climate adaptation, including limited climate data, inadequate finance, and institutional capacity gaps. Solutions include strengthening early warning systems, increasing finance flows, and supporting climate-resilient agriculture.
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CURRENT ADAPTATION ACTION GAPS/BARRIERS AND SOLUTIONS Kulthoum Omari-Motsumi Africa Adaptation Initiative Special Advisor & Adaptation Lead- Botswana National Climate Change Committee
Current adaptation action-Africa IPCC AR6 WG2- emphasized the urgency. SSA 1.04-1.8 C Increasing warming- adaptation potential reduced- limits to adaptation Planned adaptation- NAP development (15) & implementation Agricultural and livelihood diversification, agroecological and conservation agriculture practices etc Water sector adaptation- to reduce drought and flood risk Integrating climate adaptation into social protection programs, eg cash transfers, public works programmes Adapting roads for increased temperatures and investment in public transport- no regret options. Proactive could reduce repair/maintenance costs by 74% vs reactive
Gaps Climate information- hindered by limited weather and climate data in Africa 10% of ground-based observation networks are in Africa, and 54% of Africa s surface weather stations cannot capture data accurately. Many countries lack regularly reporting weather station Finance- inadequate to meet finance needs. USD 20 50 billion/yr by 2050 at 1.5 to USD 100 437 billion/ yr at 4 Agriculture- limited markets, extension service, EWS, finance, innovation and technology smallholder farmers address short-term shocks through coping eg reduced food consumption, selling assets Cost of agric inputs/ technology Institutional capacity gaps Technology- access, capacity and finance
Addressing the barriers URGENCY!!!! Strengthen CIS and Early Warning Systems (EWS) Increasing finance flows for adaptation increasing access to climate funds and strengthening project pipeline development Long term adaptation planning to support climate resilient development Strengthening social protection and better integrating climate risk management into design of social protection programs Agriculture- support climate resilient agriculture, incl infrastructure, technologies, extension service, capacity strengthening
