How Adaptation Can Make Africa Safer, Greener and More Prosperous in a Warming World
State and Trends in Adaptation 2021 combines in-depth analyses, case studies, and viewpoints from those on the frontlines of climate change impacts in Africa. It presents a detailed blueprint for action: offering innovative adaptation and resilience ideas, solutions, and policy recommendations. The results are clear and compelling. Adaptation measures can be enormously cost effective and have the potential to start a positively reinforcing cycle of benefits. As these measures protect people and communities from floods, droughts, and others impacts, they also help lift people out of poverty, reduce hunger and undernourishment, raise incomes and living standards, fight diseases, create jobs, reduce inequality, mitigate the risk of conflicts, and give voice to the most vulnerable. These realizable results, in turn, further increase resilience to climate impacts.
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Front Matter
Synthesis
Present and Projected Climate Risks in Africa
Section 1: Economics and Finance
Macroeconomics of Adaptation
COVID Recovery
Finance
The Private Sector
Youth
Jobs
Section 2: Focus Sectors
Agriculture and Food Systems
Trade
Drylands
Transport and Energy
Urban Development
Disaster risk management, floods, and water resources
Section 3: Cross Cutting Themes
Health
Gender
Conflict and Migration
Sustainable Development Goals
Annexes
Climate Risk Country Profiles
Endnotes
Background document
Supplementary Paper supporting the chapters on Macroeconomics and Agriculture
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Rapport sur l’état et les tendances en matière d’adaptation 2021 et 2022
Factsheets
Factsheet for young people: Gender
The climate crisis is not gender-neutral, and neither should our adaptation efforts be. Women and men experience different levels of exposure, vulnerability and resilience to climate risk and climate change impacts due to differences in rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. This factsheet is part of a series that presents information from GCA’s flagship reports State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.
23 May 2023
Factsheet for young people: Water Resources Management, Floods and Disaster Risk Management
One of the most direct transmission channels of the consequences of climate change is through water: too much, too little, at unexpected times. This fact sheet is part of a series that presents information from GCA’s flagship reports State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa 2021 and 2022.
23 May 2023