The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report: what’s in it for Africa?
This report, compiled by a wide range of experts from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), looks at how the impacts of climate change will affect food security, water availability and human health in Africa significantly. It explores these impacts in depth and examines how climate change will progressively threaten Africa’s economic growth and human security.
The report distils the richest material on climate impacts and trends in Africa, and African experiences in adaptation and mitigation, from the thousands of pages of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report. The expert research team has worked under the guidance of IPCC Coordinating Lead Authors and Reviewers to ensure fidelity to the original material. This guide aims to make the IPCC’s important material more accessible and usable to African audiences. It responds to wide demand for region-specific information.