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Feature: Restore Africa’s degraded land – Climate Adaptation Summit Format Land is one of Africa’s most abundant resources, but it has become degraded across large swathes of the continent. Restoring the productivity of land will form a vital part of Africa’s sustainable adaptation to climate change – the Climate Adaptation Summit heard this week. CDKN’s Mairi Dupar reports. “Land restoration has a positive impact on the economy, on business, on biodiversity and is a carbon sink, so you have multiple opportunities that can be achieved through land restoration,” Ibrahaim Thiaw told the Climate Adaptation Summit this week. Speaking at a special Africa-focused event, Mr Thiaw, the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, said that if African governments were serious about “building back better” from the Covid-19 pandemic, then “we have to invest heavily in land restoration and in ecosystem-based adaptation” to climat ....
Investing in effective, sustainable climate information services is a vital part of adapting to climate change, especially in Africa, a new research report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reveals. The report dubbed ‘Investing for sustainable climate services: Insights from the African experience’ looks at the support provided in strengthening weather and climate information services in several African countries from 2016 to 2021. The research calls for governments on the continent to make accessible weather and climate information services, which is viewed by scientists as tools that may offer effective adaptation capacities to communities and businesses around Africa. The findings come ahead of the Climate Adaptation Ambition Summit on 25th and 26th January 2021, to be attended by world leaders including Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, and Sheikh Hasina. ....