Africa climate change policy: an adaptation and development challenge in a dangerous world
Africa lags dangerously behind on climate adaptation strategies and implementation. Scattered and incoherent climate related policies exist but are not sufficient to give the continent a survival chance under adverse climate change impacts. In a business as usual Africa; adverse effects of climate related disasters will far outweigh the capacity of any given country to recover. This report blows a trumpet over lack of specific and strategic climate change adaptation policies; sluggish political systems; weak institutional capacity and framework; poor coordination and implementation of existing legislations; absence of foresight in national development planning and climate resilience; international abandonment and unfavorable global settings to enhance Africa’s capacity to develop climate change adaptation and mitigation.