Floods and droughts dominate West African news. Yet another crisis is brewing in the background: extreme heat. Governments are dangerously unprepared. In discussions of climate change in West Africa, the focus has been on floods, deforestation, food insecurity, and rising sea levels. These are problems that need to be solved now, and they will not […]
Climate-vulnerable Sierra Leone, with flooding in Freetown and disappearing coastlines in the Western Area, is now exposing the country’s governance failures. The causes of climate disasters in Sierra Leone are often clear: heavy rainfall, rising sea levels, deforestation, and coastal erosion. Still beneath these visible signs lies a deeper truth: climate change is not simply […]
Unsustainable sand extraction is undermining the natural defenses that rural coastal communities rely on for survival in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest and most affected places on earth, as rising seas and extreme weather threaten its capital. Every day, during the early morning hours on Freetown’s Western Area beaches, trucks form a queue to […]
ABSTRACT This study critically evaluates Sweden’s carbon pricing regime, one of the earliest and most successful implementations globally, initiated in 1991. Recognized for its high carbon tax level, Sweden provides an invaluable case study on the practical effectiveness and wider implications of carbon pricing as a central climate policy instrument. The research focuses on the […]
IntroductionThe effects of climate change are becoming more frequent and more severe, but adaptationcapacity varies in institutions. International agreements like the Paris Agreement and GlobalGoal on Adaptation provide significant targets, and the execution of adaptation measures ishighly reliant on the coordination on a national level, local institutions, and the involvement ofthe private sector. The disparity […]
Reston Dennis Juah 
Noor Ul Ain 
Hassan Barrie 
Hoby Nasandratra Andriamiandrisoa 