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Africa 'climate infrastructure trap' in energy and transport sectors

Saghir, Jamal
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Colorado School of Mines. Payne Institute for Public Policy
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Ijjasz-Vasquez, Ede
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Jain, Nitin
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2021-12-07
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https://hdl.handle.net/11124/14305
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Africa is particularly vulnerable to these extreme impacts of climate change. It faces exponential collateral damage, posing systemic risks to its economies, infrastructure investments, water and food systems, public health, agriculture, and livelihoods, threatening to undo its hardfought development and reverse decades of economic progress. Rates of poverty are high, both among the millions of smallholder farmers and the large numbers of people who live in informal settlements with low access to basic services in cities.
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