Habiba Ahut Daggash

Sep 20, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Annalisa Prizzon |Steve Wiggins |Adriana Abdenur |Habiba Ahut Daggash

1 FRAMING AND PRACTICAL MATTERS The rise of climate change up the international agenda is an opportunity for development and poverty alleviation, but perhaps also a threat. An opportunity because the issues that climate change brings to the fore are similar to those that matter for development. Overlaps, complementarities, and synergies exist between investment and policies for development and those aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Apr 14, 2024 | thecjid.org | Habiba Ahut Daggash

By Habiba Ahut Daggash, Ph.D.In the last decade, there has been increasing agreement on the reality of climate change and its threats to our natural environment and the established socioeconomic systems that we depend on. Africa’s geography and the low adaptive capacity of its population—due to fiscal stress, poverty, and poor governance, amongst other factors—make the continent uniquely vulnerable to climate change impacts.