Urban climate resilience in Africa: A review of nature-based solution in African cities' adaptation plans

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversité Joseph Ki-Zerbo
cg.contributor.affiliationHaramaya University
cg.contributor.affiliationKabale University
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeClimate Resilience
cg.creator.identifierSintayehu Dejene: 0000-0002-5677-7324
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-024-00275-6
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2662-9984
cg.issue1
cg.journalDiscover Sustainability
cg.number94
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatCLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate action
cg.volume5
dc.contributor.authorKiribou, Razak
dc.contributor.authorDejene, Sintayehu
dc.contributor.authorBedadi, Bobe
dc.contributor.authorNtirenganya, Elie
dc.contributor.authorNdemere, Julius
dc.contributor.authorDimobe, Kangbéni
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-30T13:28:01Zen
dc.date.available2025-03-30T13:28:01Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173935
dc.titleUrban climate resilience in Africa: A review of nature-based solution in African cities' adaptation plansen
dcterms.abstractCities are globally exposed to climate change effects, which revealed that 55% of the world's population is at risk. Despite their low contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, African cities are paying the highest cost of the threats caused by climate change due to their rapid urban community growth, high population density, and inadequate urban planning. This review has explored and demonstrated the benefit of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) implementation for urban climate crisis resilience that have been implemented globally for sharing information on sustainable city planning in Africa. The analysis is based on the African countries’ Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) reports, the institution’s review, and scientific articles. The successful implementation of NbS since 2015 in developed countries confirms that NbS has a multi-functional environmental benefit for urban and pre-urban populations. It reduces cities' vulnerability to climate threats and advances numerous Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) achievement. It revealed only 15 (27,7%) African countries have implemented NbS with 119 projects to adapt and tackle climate change in water, agriculture, forest and woodland, coastal and marine habitat, grassland, and mountain habitat sectors. Rural areas are paid more attention than cities despite the rapid urbanization in the face of extreme climate effects. Furthermore, the review process observed some challenges in translating the approaches of NbS into measurable actions for African urban climate resilience: (i) issues in the governance of urban planning and policies; (ii) insufficient mobilization of resources and lack of private sector involvement in financing NbS; and (iii) lack of comprehensive evidence-based strategies and knowledge for successful operationalization of NbS in African cities.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2024-05-16
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKiribou, R.; Dejene, S.; Bedadi, B.; Ntirenganya, E.; Ndemere, J.; Dimobe, K. (2024) Urban climate resilience in Africa: A review of nature-based solution in African cities' adaptation plans. Discover Sustainability 5: 94. ISSN: 2662-9984en
dcterms.issued2024-05-16
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringer
dcterms.subjectclimate resilienceen
dcterms.subjectsustainable developmenten
dcterms.subjectnature-based solutionsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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