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Mozambique

This page presents Mozambique''s climate context for the current climatology, 1991-2020, derived from observed, historical data. Information should be used to build a strong understanding of current climate conditions in order to appreciate future climate scenarios and projected change. You can visualize data for the current climatology through spatial …

From Climate Risk to Resilience: Unpacking the Economic Impacts …

Mozambique''s transport infrastructure is highly vulnerable to climate change due to the projected increase in flooding, the low proportion of paved roads, their limited interconnectivity, and ...

Climate Change and Futures in Africa Conference Series

Towards Local Solutions to Early Warning and Disaster Risk Community (SADC) and beyond. DATE: 08-10 November 2023. Maputo, Mozambique. Climate change is negatively impacting the global community and local communities in the SADC region. Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, posing a threat to human lives and well …

Climate Change Hazard Identification in the Maputo Area

Full size table. Maputo is a relatively dry city, averaging 799.5 mm of precipitation per year during 1971–2000, or 784.3 mm/year during the entire 1960–2006 period. Rain distribution is characterized by high variability, with a maximum of 1299 mm/year in 1966 and a minimum of 288 mm/year in 2003.

Where is the State Missing? Addressing Urban Climate Change at …

In the context of urban climate change in Luanda and in Maputo, there is an undefined set of tasks and responsibilities to deal with the impacts and prevent further negative effects to the urban dwellers and the poor in particular. This article identifies recurrently mentioned areas where the state is considered absent (and should be present).

Maputo, Mozambique: Climate Change Assessment | UN-Habitat

The Maputo Climate Change Assessment is based on the proposed Framework for Urban Climate Risk Assessment developed by the Fifth Urban Research Symposium. The …

Climate Change assessment for maputo, mozambique: a …

starting with a brief background on the city, the report addresses maputo''s climate change situation from a climate risk perspective that focuses on hazards, vulnerabilities and the adaptive capacities of the

Environmentalities of urban climate governance in Maputo, …

The environmentalities lens enables the study of complex relations between policy, people and environment that are inherent in understanding governmental support for action on urban climate change governance. This approach reveals the complex set of relations that define the city. In relation to climate change, governmentality helps …

Participatory urban planning for climate change adaptation in …

In the city of Maputo, the main hazards associated with climate change are likely to be temperature increases, extreme events related to precipitation and sea level rise. There are already noticeable coastal erosion problems, but further sea level rise will increase the risk of flooding in the lowest topographical areas [ 38, 42 ].

Climate change and wildland fires in Mozambique | SpringerLink

The ongoing process of climate change has the potential to exacerbate this situation by altering the frequency, intensity, severity, and seasonality of fires in Mozambique. However, little research has been done on the long-term implications of climate change for the fire regimes of Mozambique, or for southern Africa in general, and the ...

Mainstreaming Climate Change into Mozambique''s Planning is Key …

MAPUTO, December 1, 2023 – Climate change impacts could drive up to 1.6 million additional people into poverty by 2050, further compounding drivers of fragility across most of the country, notes the World Bank Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Mozambique, released today. This report evaluates how climate change and global …

"We must prepare": Mozambique banks on nature as defence

Maputo, 24 February 2022 – The Government of Mozambique has launched a USD 6 million project to protect its coasts from the impacts of climate change through the restoration and conservation of nature.

Mainstreaming Climate Change into Mozambique''s Planning is Key …

MAPUTO, December 1, 2023 – Climate change impacts could drive up to 1.6 million additional people into poverty by 2050, further compounding drivers of fragility across …

Environmentalities of urban climate governance in Maputo, …

Climate change in Maputo is being addressed through explicit adaptation interventions. As well as being one of the launch members of UN-HABITAT''s Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI), Maputo is one of five partner cities in ICLEI''s ''Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Five-City Network to Pioneer Climate Adaptation through …

Participatory urban planning for climate change

Climate change will contribute to the uninterrupted sequence of drought and floods that Mozambique has suffered from since 1970, with devastating social and economic consequences [40,41]. In the city of Maputo, the main hazards associated with climate change are likely to be

Cities and Climate Change Initiative: Maputo, Mozambique

Maputo is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change since it faces the Indian Ocean and is the most densely populated urban area in Mozambique. The rising sea level has resulted in salty intrusion, impacting on agricultural activities and contributing to …

FIRST BIENNIAL UPDATE REPORT (BUR)

It is in this context that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Mozambique is a signatory, has urged the parties to report on the climate …

MOZAMBIQUE''S

Climate Change (ENAMMC) to reduce the vulnerability of people and the economy, create institutional and human capacity and increase the ability to access financial and

UN-Habitat and UNEP join hands to help Mozambique strengthen …

Climate change. Maputo, 22 September 2023 – UN-Habitat and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are strengthening the institutional and technical …

Governing climate change for a just city: challenges and lessons …

Climate change in Maputo: lessons from UN-Habitat CCCI. Climate change impacts and actions need to be understood within their overall context of urbanisation and socio-economic development. In Maputo, Mozambique, this means, for example, understanding the dynamics of the post-conflict boom and the bumps and highs …

Full article: Climate change and DIY urbanism in Luanda and …

Climate-related phenomena historically have had an impact on the lives of urban dwellers of Luanda and Maputo. Recently, however, urban expansion and congestion of different sorts, aggravated by climate change impacts, call for renewed responses on the part of residents. Rising sea levels and harder impacts of flooding are the most disturbing ...

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