Africa Adaptation Newsletter Issue 4

Highlights

1. The Africa Adaptation Gap Report investigates the economic costs of adaptation to climate change in Africa.

2. The report was launched during UNFCCC COP19 in Warsaw, Poland, and played a significant role at the 5th Special Session of AMCEN in Gaborone, Botswana, as well as the COP19.

3. African Ministers of Environment used the findings to negotiate the African position on key issues like finance, adaptation, capacity building, adaptation goals etc.

4. The Africa group, led by the AMCEN president, shared a copy of the Africa Adaptation Gap Report with the UN Secretary General, and reiterated adaptation as a priority for Africa.

5. Based on the findings in the report, the Ministers called for an Africa Adaptation Programme.

6. His Excellency Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania and Coordinator of the Committee of African Heads of State and Governments on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), used the findings of the report to make the case for the continent during the opening ceremony of the COP19 high-level segment.