Burundi: Scaling up Climate Resilience in the Land of 3,000 Hills
Burundi, a beautiful land of thousands of collines (hills), is losing its natural capital base at an alarming rate because of climate change. The country is sculpted with lush green hillsides where 90% of the population lives and grows. It rains nine months of the year and waterfalls run freely across the country. The 2017 Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) found that the country loses annually 1.6% of its GDP to land degradation. A new joint World Bank-Government of Burundi (GoB) report Tackling Climate Change, Land Degradation and Fragility: Diagnosing Drivers of Climate and Environmental ...
Source: worldbank.org