Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
Resource
29th June 2017
Science summary: The drought in Ethiopia, 2015 The worst drought in decades gripped north and central Ethiopia in 2015, affecting nearly 10 million people. As part of the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, a partnership of scientists have conducted an analysis to determine whether climate change played a role in the drought.
Resource
12th June 2017
Working paper: Making governance work for water-energy-food nexus approaches This working paper explores governance of the water-energy-food nexus - drawing on CDKN's experience in Kenya, Indonesia and the Amazon Basin to understand the links between sectors, recognise these in decision-making and promote integrated policy-making.
Resource
9th June 2017
Communicating extreme weather event attribution: Research from India and Kenya Communication of extreme event attribution information in the immediate aftermath of an extreme event provides a window of opportunity to inform, educate, and affect a change in attitude or behaviour in order to mitigate or prepare for climate change.This report presents the most effective identified methods, phrases and tools.
Feature
2nd June 2017
Paris Agreement - Its toughest test yet Sam Bickersteth, CDKN's Chief Executive, and Kiran Sura, Head of Negotiations Support, respond to the announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
Resource
1st June 2017
Science summary: The drought in Kenya, 2016–2017 Kenya is currently suffering from a drought, which has triggered a national emergency as of April 2017. Scientists with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) partnership have conducted a real-time attribution analysis to see whether and to what extent human-induced climate change has played a role in the 2016-2017 drought in Kenya.
Resource
24th May 2017
Attributing extreme weather events (Swahili version) What if we could better prepare for hazards like flooding and heat waves by understanding the changing risks of extreme weather events? This short film, presented in Swahili, explains the process behind attribution science and its importance in preparing for the future.
Feature
16th May 2017
Zambia works toward delivering its national climate commitment How is Zambia planning to deliver the national climate plan or 'NDC' to which it committed under the Paris Agreement? Cathrine Mutambirwa reports that Zambia's planning process is gaining momentum as the country assesses how to take economy-wide action.
Resource
15th May 2017
Learning from Raising Risk Awareness Artist Jorge Martin captures the learnings from the Raising Risk Awareness learning event in a digitized graphic, illustrating the importance of engaging policy makers on disaster risk reduction. This emerged out of the RRA East Africa workshop where participants discussed putting into practice the science around extreme weather events.
News
4th May 2017
Switching on climate finance in Kenya This CDKN production looks at how Kenya is dealing with the challenge of generating more electricity - essential for growth and development - in climate compatible ways, and how the Government is mobilising finance from a range of sources to support this growth.
Completed
Project
Completed
Supporting Kenya’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution

This project assisted the Government of Kenya in its preparation for submitting its Nationally Intended Contribution.

Resource
26th April 2017
The changing risk of extreme weather: Insights from Raising Risk Awareness Raising Risk Awareness held a three-day learning event, hosted in Nairobi, to bring together 65 members of the Raising Risk Awareness team from across the globe. A series of short films were produced on the takeaway messages of the learning event and the importance of climate science attribution.
Event
24th April 2017
Decision-making for African development - and what it means for climate science Join Dr Chris Jack of the University of Cape Town and the Future Climate for Africa programme on Friday 28 April to consider how climate science can make African decision-making for development more effective - based on his team's experiences in Southern African cities. Register today.