Description du projet
Services climatiques et solutions fondées sur la nature pour l’adaptation au climat en Afrique subsaharienne
Les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne sont particulièrement vulnérables au changement climatique et aux catastrophes météorologiques, qui ont de graves répercussions sur la sécurité, la disponibilité des denrées alimentaires et de l’eau, exacerbant la pauvreté et les inégalités. Les menaces liées au climat stimulent les migrations internes et l’urbanisation, augmentant les risques dans les quartiers à faible revenu. Le projet ALBATROSS, financé par l’UE, se propose d’accélérer l’adaptation au climat en Afrique subsaharienne par le biais de stratégies d’adaptation innovantes et durables basées sur des solutions fondées sur la nature et sur des informations climatiques exploitables. Le projet établira un réseau de développement de la résilience climatique à travers l’Afrique subsaharienne, intégrant les communautés indigènes, les organismes de recherche et les acteurs politiques afin de co-créer et de déployer des services climatiques pilotés par les communautés, des prévisions climatiques et des outils pertinents pour la prise de décision. Son objectif est de favoriser la coopération et le renforcement des capacités par-delà les frontières pour une adaptation efficace au climat et des voies de développement durable.
Objectif
Increasing vulnerability due to climate change requires cross-sectoral management of the territories with bottom-up approaches based on active community participation. Climate change intensifies territorial risk and impacts severely on human migration and displacement, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Avoiding maladaptation associated to internal migration as well as to other adaptation actions which do not adopt a nexus approach (e.g. water-food-energy nexus) requires effective planning and management of migration hot spots. At the same time, it calls for more integrated strategies which simultaneously support sustainable development growth pathways and climate resilience development in the African context.
ALBATROSS aims at addressing these challenges by delivering novel, innovative and decision making-relevant tools and knowledge which will support the adoption of feasible, effective, and sustainable need-based adaptation strategies into AF policies and programs. It will do that by co-creating climate services and tools which will enable the weighting of compound and cascading impacts (benefits and threats) on ecosystem health, food security, socio-economic vulnerability while addressing specific natural hazards (e.g. drought or flood) or sectoral climate adaptation needs (e.g. agriculture) through nature-based solutions (NBS) and other climate adaptation measures. The methodological approach of ALBATROSS will be tested ad validated in different Sub-Saharan countries, leading to the co-creation and co-evaluation with key stakeholders of need-based adaptions options and plans. By combining participatory approaches with fundamental research grounded on the latest generation of observational data and modelling techniques, ALBATROSS will provide robust and science-based evidence on the degree at which NBS may perform as multifunctional adaptation strategy for counteracting forced migration, biodiversity loss and hydrometeorological risk in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrations
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
40126 Bologna
Italie