sub-Saharan Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food security across the world. As governments respond in different ways both with regards to... Read more

Investing in clean energy systems and technologies is just as urgent a priority for fragile and conflict-affected situations as it is for more stable environments, and a positive feedback loop exists between securing access to clean energy, state-building and peace, argue Camilla Sacchetto, Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor. Read more

In this paper, we use an inductive approach and longitudinal analysis to explore political influences on the emergence and evolution... Read more

Making climate-resilient planning and adaptation decisions is, in part, contingent on the use of climate information. Growing attention has been... Read more

Non-governmental organisations in countries such as Kenya are developing multi-stakeholder partnerships to unlock private sector resources to support adaptation to climate change. Yet without careful ongoing monitoring and support, the most vulnerable are unlikely to benefit, writes Kate Gannon. Read more

This paper outlines experiences with Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP), which has been used in Malawi as a method to bring together producers and users of weather and climate information to co-produce sector-specific advisories of weather information to make it both useful and usable to the different user groups, including farmers. Read more

With recent growth in funding and research on “resilience building”, interest in climate services has risen dramatically. Included in this... Read more

The El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with... Read more

The major disruption to urban water and hydroelectricity supplies caused by the conditions accompanying the 2015/16 El Niño in Southern Africa show that governments and businesses need to be more prepared for climatic extremes, argue the authors of this commentary. Read more

Coherent, cross-sectoral approaches to policy development are essential to meeting the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals. Drawing on research from southern Africa, this brief makes recommendations for improving coherence, which is currently partial to weak across the region. Read more