The recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, report underscores the urgency for rapid, deep and sustained action on climate adaptation to ensure the world’s poorest countries are not caught off guard by worsening climate impacts. It assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels and notes that action is most urgent in Africa, where accelerated effort is required to adapt to climate change to avoid mounting loss of life, biodiversity and infrastructure. This seminal report offers new insights on possible pathways for policymakers, business leaders and others to ramp up their efforts to tackle the climate crisis at the scale and urgency required.
Join World Bank Africa leadership, IPCC authors, and climate activists on May 9th for an overview of the IPCC report’s findings and discuss how we can scale-up transformative action in agriculture, water, energy, fisheries, and forests.