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Ecosystem services: Energy
Access to electricity is one of East Africa’s key constraints. In the majority of the subregion, less than 20 per cent of the population…
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Ecosystem services: Tourism
Tourism is an important and growing economic sector for East Africa. Economic revenues from tourism for Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, DRC and Tanzania…
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Greater Virunga
The mountain ecosystems of East Africa are rich in biodiversity and are an important resource for local communities. They provide food, freshwater, fibre, fuel,…
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Mount Elgon
Mount Elgon is shared between Uganda and Kenya and stands at a height of about 4,000 metres above sea level (MoWE, 2013). In Uganda,…
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Projected change in the distribution of malaria’s vectors
Under a climate change scenario with a rise of 2°C Africa wide temperature, 10% increase of summer rainfall and 10% decrease in winter rainfall.…
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Regional institutional arrangements
At the transnational level, a significant number of policies and institutional frameworks exist and are in operation. In East Africa, these arrangements can be…
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Climate Change Effects
According to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, Africa has seen an increase in temperature by 0.5 °C or more during the last 50 to…
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Climate change impacts on agriculture
While projections for future impacts of climate change on agriculture in large parts of Africa are dire, the mountainous areas of East Africa may…
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Contribution to Climate Change
A key constraint hindering the development of the energy sector is limited finance. In addition to the economic costs of constructing dams, there is…
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East Africa Region
The majority of countries in Africa have land that is over 1,500 m above sea level, and therefore classified as mountainous (UNEP 2014). East…
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Walking on the seabed from Hallig Hooge to Japsand, National Park Schleswig- Holstein Wadden Sea,
Seabed meets Horizon. The tidal flats between Den Helder in the Netherlands and Esbjerg in Denmark are the largest continuous tidal flats in the…
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Hallig Hooge, Wadden Sea National Park Schleswig-Holstein
The flat islands of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea national park are threatened by sea level rise-causing climate change.