Cape Verde- Second National Communication

Cape Verde- Second National Communication

Introduction

The creation of a National Communication offers countries the opportunity to contribute with technically sound studies and information that can be used for designing mitigation and adaptation measures, and project proposals that can and will help increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change. Activities generally include: V&A assessments, Greenhouse Gas Inventory preparation, Mitigation Analysis or Education, and awareness raising activities.The ultimate goal is the integration of climate change considerations into relevant social, economic and environmental policies and actions.

Key vulnerabilities identified in Cape Verde's Second National Communication (2010):

  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Coastal zones
  • Water resource
  • Public Health
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Potential adaptation measures identified in Cape Verde's Second National Plan

Water Resources

  • Build mobilization, supply and storage infrastructure and for groundwater recharge
  • Promote action to combat desertification and for watershed protection, through forestation and other techniques
  • Improve and monitor water quality
  • Use closed pipes in water supply channels

Agriculture/ Food Security

  • Promote environmentally sustainable production techniques
  • Use cultivars and species adapted to climate conditions
  • Modernize and expand drip irrigation technology
  • Intensify and diversify production of fruit and vegetables

Coastal zones

  • Diversify activities and measures to change behavior of populations living of coastal resources;
  • Continue implementing activities for preservation and management of protected areas;
  • Rehabilitate and/ or build infrastructure to protect coastal areas ;

 

 

Thematic Area
Climate-related hazards addressed:
Drought/Water Scarcity
Level of intervention
  • National
Key collaborators
  • National Governments
Primary beneficiaries:

Through improved identification of national circumstances, government agencies and other actors will increase their abilities to insulate at risk urban and rural populations from the adverse effects of climate change.

Implementing agencies and partnering organizations
  • Minister of Environment, Rural Development and Marine Resources, Cape Verde
  • UNFCCC Secretariat
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Project status
Completed
Funding Source
Global Environment Facility - Trust Fund

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Key results & output

  • Sustainable development and the integration of climate change concerns into medium- and long-term planning
  • Inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases
  • Measures contributing to addressing climate change
  • Research and systematic observation
  • Climate change impacts, adaptation measures and response strategies
  • Education, training and public awareness

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Monitoring & evaluation

In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were, by then, inevitable.

Parties to the Convention must submit national reports on implementation of the Convention to the Conference of the Parties (COP). The required contents of national communications and the timetable for their submission are different for Annex I and non-Annex I Parties. This is in accordance with the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" enshrined in the Convention.

The core elements of the national communications for both Annex I and non-Annex I Parties are information on emissions and removals of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and details of the activities a Party has undertaken to implement the Convention. National communications usually contain information on national circumstances, vulnerability assessment, financial resources and transfer of technology, and education, training and public awareness.

Since 1994, governments have invested significant time and resources in the preparation, collection and validation of data on GHG emissions, and the COP has made determined efforts to improve the quality and consistency of the data, which are ensured by established guidelines for reporting. Non-Annex I Parties receive financial and technical assistance in preparing their national communications, facilitated by the UNFCCC secretariat.

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