The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) supported the World Bank in the preparation and implementation of multiple investment projects throughout the Congo River Basin. The World Bank projects across the basin region share common objectives aimed at enhancing urban resilience to climate-related hazards, such as floods and erosion, while improving access to basic urban infrastructure and services. Key components in these projects focus on climate-resilient urban infrastructure development, capacity building, and contingency emergency response.  

The Climate Hazard Assessment for The Gambia Technical Report provides an evidence-based overview of current and future climate hazards affecting critical infrastructure, with a focus on the transport sector. The analysis highlights that flooding, rising extreme temperatures, and increasing drought risk are the most significant threats to mobility, connectivity, and water availability.

The Climate Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector in The Gambia Technical Report evaluates how current and future climate hazards affect the national transport network and identifies priority adaptation responses. The assessment shows that flooding and rising extreme temperatures pose the most significant risks, with a large share of road infrastructure already exposed to shallow flood events that can disrupt access to markets, schools, and health services.

The transport sector, a cornerstone of economic activity, faces unprecedented challenges due to the climate crisis. In Senegal, roads, railways, and airports are increasingly vulnerable to flooding, bushfires, and coastal erosion, compromising their sustainability and operational efficiency. In response, the Climate Change Adaptation Project for Resilient Infrastructure (PACCIR), implemented as part of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), has developed a national roadmap to strengthen the resilience of Senegal’s transport infrastructure.

With over 1 billion children at extremely high risk now, and 4.2 billion children to be born over the next 30 years, there is an urgent need for countries to adapt, prepare and build resilience in preparation for more frequent and severe climate hazards.

This publication documents 15 innovative ideas and actions adopted and implemented by educational institutes in Africa, and across the globe. The purpose of this knowledge product is to provide case study examples on adaptation and climate resilience in schools, to offers insights to schools based in Africa, and to amplify real life climate adaptation actions, designed and implemented in different countries across the world.

Over fifty leaders from the international climate and development community attended the Dialogue which concluded with a Communique adopted in the presence of the Dialogue’s Co-Conveners.

Young people are going to bear the brunt of climate change, so we must involve them—now—as we draw up solutions.

Cities and their growing populations are impacted by climate change on a daily basis. The need to accelerate adaptation in cities and to invest in solutions with multiple benefits is higher than ever before.