Workshop on climate resilience of Africa Infrastructure (Accra, Ghana, October 29-30, 2013)

Workshop on climate resilience of Africa Infrastructure (Maseru, Lesotho, July 3-4, 2013)

Africa’s infrastructure is at present inadequate, both in terms of physical stock and quality of service, to support sustained growth in the years to come, both under current and future climate. Yet, relatively little is known about how climate change will affect the desirable design, location, timing, and composition of the stock of infrastructure that will need to be built in the short to medium term. A better understanding of the range of climate impacts on infrastructure development and of approaches to deal with the uncertainty inherent in projections of future climate change and other stressors is necessary in order to inform future investment decisions. Without this understanding, there is a risk of locking Africa into a pattern of climate‐vulnerable development that will be very costly, or in some cases impossible, to repair in the future.