Climate change is an additional constraint to sustainable socio-economic development in Zimbabwe. The increasing frequency and severity of droughts and floods, the shift in onset of the rains, and increasing intensity of mid-season dry spells in the last 50 years have been identified in the Initial National Communications (1996), the IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) and other recent studies as a major consequence of climate change. The IPCC fourth assessment report (2007) concludes that climate change will impede nations’ abilities to achieve sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals, and that Africa will experience increased levels of water stress and reduced agricultural yields by up to 50% by 2020. Livelihoods of the poor, particularly women who are highly dependent on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, are likely to be impacted by climate change in various ways. The challenge is to develop and implement long-term adaptation strategies to climate change impacts in climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and water.
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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS
FOR THE National Climate Change Adaptation Symposium
Theme: Building Climate Resilient Rural Communities
The Environmental Management Agency with Support from the UNDP is pleased to announce the call for papers for a national climate change adaptation symposium being organised under the EMA-UNDP/GEF Coping with Drought and Climate Change project.
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