Background
Ranked as the World’s second most vulnerable country to the effects of climate change, Somalia suffers unprecedented multidimensional climate-induced shocks amid persistent instability and economic crisis, despite contributing less than one per cent (0.03) to global greenhouse gases. These crises include a looming multiyear drought, which has been the most protracted and intense drought in four decades. This has been exacerbated by devastating seasonal flooding in some parts of the country, which has augmented food and nutrition insecurity, and unsafe displacement. Besides the devastating hunger and seasonal floods, Somalia is grappling with a range of systemic gaps in implementation of climate adaptation plans. These limitations include limited political stability, inadequate formal instruments, and insufficient coordination capacities, to cite a few. As a result, these crises present an array of risks to an already deepening state of vulnerability to climate change, considering the Somalia’s enormous dependence on climate-sensitive agriculture and pastoralism as bedrock for economic growth. To this end, this briefing examines existing structural barriers to effective implementation of national adaptation plans in Somalia.
About the Author:
Mohamed Mire is a research consultant at Juba Institute for Climate Adaptation and a 2023 Charles R.Wall policy fellow at African Wildlife Foundation.
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