Climate adaptation
3 Sep
A recent report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has raised concerns that African countries are losing an average of 2-5 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to climate change annually. The report added that countries are diverting 9 per cent of their budgets to responding to climate extremes. The report estimated that…
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