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Guinea-Bissau: Launch of the project for climate resilient …

Standing up to climate change related challenges has become a priority for Guinea-Bissau. This country is systematically listed among those most vulnerable in the world regarding climate change, due to its geographical configuration, which defines it essentially as a coastal region, put at high risk by rising sea levels, which constitute a serious …

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Updated NDC Guinea-Bissau

on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1995, entry into force of the Paris Agreement on the New Climate Regime in 2016, Guinea-Bissau has committed to participating in global efforts …

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau has a typical hot, humid monsoon-like tropical climate with two well-defined seasons. Agriculture is exposed to the effects of climate change with the country vulnerable to droughts, floods and sea level rise.

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Guinea-Bissau: Launch of the project for climate resilient …

Standing up to climate change related challenges has become a priority for Guinea-Bissau. This country is systematically listed among those most vulnerable in the world …

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Guinea-Bissau

Trends and Significant Change against Natural Variability. Trends in climate — past, present and future — always need to be understood in the context of the naturally occurring variability. Climate variability here, refers to the ways how climate conditions (e.g., temperature and precipitation) "flicker" from year to year within their ...

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau. Explore historical and projected climate data, climate data by sector, impacts, key vulnerabilities and what adaptation measures are being taken. Explore the …

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Guinea-Bissau | IUCN

Resources. TRI''s project in Guinea-Bissau is working to restore and protect mangrove ecosystems – among the most productive and threatened ecosystems in the world. Found in the intertidal zones of coastlines, mangrove ecosystems are dominated by mangrove trees or shrubs, which are well-adapted to living in such salty environments.

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Guinea

Climate change is now recognized to have a significant impact on disaster management efforts and pose a significant threat to the efforts to meet the growing needs of the most vulnerable populations. The demands of disaster risk management are such that concise, clear, and reliable information is crucial. The information presented here offers ...

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Urbanization in Guinea Bissau: Building inclusive

Since 2015 UN-Habitat provides technical assistance to the national and local government of Guinea-Bissau on Policies, Plans and Strategies related to Housing, Sustainable Urban Development, Slum Upgrading …

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National Climate Change Profile

Guinea - National Climate Change Profile. 16-Sep-2019. The Republic of Guinea (henceforth ''Guinea'', Figure 1- 1 below) is a coastal country in West Africa, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean coastline of the Guinea Lowlands, inland towards the east and south interior and rises up towards the Guinea Highlands region. The Guinea …

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Guinea

This page presents Guinea''s climate context for the current climatology, 1991-2020, derived from observed, historical data. Information should be used to build a strong understanding of current climate conditions in order to appreciate future climate scenarios and projected change. You can visualize data for the current climatology through spatial variation, the …

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Guinea-Bissau

Climate Change Knowledge Portal. The systematic warming of the planet is directly causing global mean sea level to rise in two primary ways: (1) mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets are increasingly melting and adding water to the ocean, and (2) the warming of the water in the oceans leads to an expansion and thus increased volume.

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Guinea | Climate Promise

Next Guinea-Bissau. 0.09%. Share of global GHG emissions. Based on data from Climate Watch (CAIT 2020), developed and maintained by the World Resources Institute. #161. Climate Vulnerability Index ranking. A higher number means a higher vulnerability to climate change. Based on the ND-GAIN Index (2021), developed by the University of …

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Guinea-Bissau | Climate Promise

Guinea-Bissau defined its first quantified target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, committing to a reduction of 30% by 2030 with support and an unconditional target of …

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The Restoration Initiative: A Guinea-Bissau story | IUCN

For many decades, coastal villages in Guinea-Bissau have practiced a special type of rice cultivation involving construction of earthen dykes to prevent seawater ingress and benefiting from mangrove trees lining the coast, which provide a buffer against storm surges and erosion. However, rising sea levels and a steady exodus of youth to …

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Establishing a National Adaptation Planning Process in Guinea

The Government of Guinea-Bissau is committed to establishing a national climate change adaptation planning framework to guide future climate change adaptation policies and investments. The planning framework includes developing a National Adaptation Plan strategy document. The country has conducted some foundational …

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Climate Response Analysis for Guinea-Bissau | World Food …

WFP and partners have undertaken an analysis of climate risks in Guinea-Bissau and recommended programmes to address identified risks. Climate change is …

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Recent changes in climate extremes in Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau has experienced the tangible effects of climate change in recent years. An examination of the annual and monthly precipitation patterns from …

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GUINEA-BISSAU FIRST BIENNIAL UPDATE REPORT

The findings of this Guinea-Bissau First Biennial Update Report (BUR) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change although preliminary, they reveal also an ecstatic landmark that the country has achieved by expanding the size of protected areas from 15% to 26.34% (2017) of the country''s territory becoming a sanctuary

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Guinea-Bissau makes gender, agriculture and tourism a priority in ...

Guinea-Bissau faces some of the world''s most difficult development challenges and is at risk from the impacts of climate change, with agriculture, water and the coastal zone being particularly vulnerable. As an archipelago on the West coast of Africa, Guinea-Bissau is classified as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS).

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Recent changes in climate extremes in Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-bissau. 1. Introduction. The global climate changes observed in recent decades have caused social and environmental impacts across the planet. Floods, droughts, greater irregularity in rainfall, increased temperature and heat waves, sea level rise, are examples of phenomena linked to climate change that highlight the …

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The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields: The ...

Guinea-Bissau remains among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change due to its flat topography and large meandering coastal area invaded by the tides.We present a case study of the island-village of Djobel, showing the dramatic consequences of socio-environmental change. The inhabita …

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Updated Nationally Determined Contribution in the …

Today, Guinea- Bissau is determined to be even more proactive in favor of the climate by adopting a quantified and ambitious target, through the present update of the iNDC, in accordance with the …

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Guinea-Bissau accedes to the Aarhus Convention, opening new …

Minister of Environment and Biodiversity of Guinea-Bissau, Viriato Luís Soares Cassamá, stated: "With this accession, Guinea-Bissau hopes to take advantage of the instruments of the Convention to fight climate change, promote its biodiversity as well as the protection, conservation, and safeguarding of the environment, allowing public ...

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Guinea-Bissau coast

Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa. Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean. Image taken by Landsat 7 on December 1, 2000.

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Guinea-Bissau

This page presents Guinea-Bissau''s projected climate. Data is shown as either the projected mean or anomaly (change) and is presented spatially, as a seasonal cycle, time series, or heatplot, which shows seasonal change over long-term time horizons. We offer a range of variables at both national and sub-national aggregations. Data can be analyzed …

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GUINEA-BISSAU FIRST BIENNIAL UPDATE REPORT

Guinea-Bissau reaffirms its commitment under the INDCs to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions through the expansion of national protected areas and a moratorium to ban the …

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Geography of Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau''s climate is tropical. This means it is generally hot and humid. It has a monsoonal -type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds and a dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds. [1] Guinea-Bissau is warm all year around and there is little temperature fluctuation; it averages 26.3 °C (79.3 ...

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau''s history of political instability, a civil war, and several coups (the latest in 2012) have resulted in a fragile state with a weak economy, high unemployment, rampant corruption, widespread poverty, and thriving drug and child trafficking. ... Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris …

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The Restoration Initiative: A Guinea-Bissau story

Irregular rainfall and rising seawater levels, a consequence of climate change, are threatening the viability of harvests and livelihoods. In order to mitigate the adverse effects of these conditions, the TRI Guinea-Bissau project joined forces with ten at-risk villages as they work to reverse a legacy of coastal degradation.

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Guinea-Bissau Economic Outlook

Climate change issues and policy options. Guinea-Bissau is among the countries most affected by climate change. An estimated $688.8 million in climate finance is needed to address mitigation and adaptation over 2021–30 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30%. Committed finance has been mobilized from development partners and climate funds.

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Second National Communication on Climate Changes in Guinea-Bissau …

situation, the national inventory of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), the vulnerability of Guinea-Bissau faced with climate change, adaptation to address climate change, the measures taken to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases, the socio-economic analysis of the impacts of climate change, the needs to strengthen national capabilities by means of ...

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Explore historical and projected climate data, climate data by sector, impacts, key vulnerabilities and what adaptation measures are being taken. Explore the overview for a general context of how climate change is affecting Guinea-Bissau.

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Third National Communication

and Biosphere Reserve Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change . The climate change related risks impacting on the country have been identified and they : sea level rise, are extreme rainfall events, dry spells, flooding and drought episodes. As such,

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