Liberia, due to its location on the west coast of Africa, within the tropical rain forest climate belt with heavy rain, is faced with high climate change risks, including cyclones, floods and rising sea levels. Its vulnerability to climate variabilit...
The Gambia is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change from increases in temperature, decreases in rainfall, and a rise in the sea level, which affect millions of people and make adaptation more urgent. Rapid changes in climate tend to have severe...
Ghana is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its location along the Atlantic Ocean in a tropical climate zone. This increasingly exposes the country to the risks of climate change including rising sea levels, drought, higher temperatures and e...
Sierra Leone, like many other countries in the region, is impacted by natural events such as more frequent floods, rising sea levels and coastal erosion, among others. Flooding disasters and its consequent waterborne diseases exacerbated by lack of s...
The "Local Solutions from the Global South: Changing the Narrative of the Climate Debate" sheds light on local innovations and practical solutions from organisations headed by Catalyst 2030 members. They are climate champions who are making a differe...
This handbook provides you with the tools to implement a gender perspective in your climate accelerator programme, and it is meant for all accelerator delivery teams that have an interest in integrating a gender-specific approach.
The aspirational goal of FAST is to implement concrete actions that would result in improving the quantity and quality of climate finance contributions to transform agriculture and food systems by 2030, to support adaptation and maintain a 1.5-degree...
This work provides a preliminary analysis of the key climate risks affecting agrifood value chains and opportunities for climate services that reach stakeholders involved in all stages of the value chain, from agrifood production to harvest, storage...
Loss and damage is a term used to describe the aftermath of the impacts of climate change as mitigation efforts fail and emissions continue to rise, and the consequences of climate change go beyond what people can adapt to. This paper looks at the so...
This report assesses the cost of adaptation to climate change across a range of future climate scenarios and investment options. Focus was on offsetting climate change impacts on hunger through investment in agricultural research, water management, a...
Against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable forestry, the 2022 edition of The State of the World’s Forest...
2021 was the third-costliest year on record for climate-related disasters, totalling US$329 billion in economic losses and accounting for four megadisasters with response costs of over US$20 billion.1 More frequent and intense droughts, floods and st...