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Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Sub-Saharan African Countries

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The impact of climate change and global warming is high on agriculture, food security, quality of life, human health, economic growth, and development in sub-Saharan African countries. Thus, there are ongoing global discussions on climate change adaptation and mitigation including the Kyoto Protocol; an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by global warming, the 2012 Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Development Programme climate change portfolio, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization climate change awareness program, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other bodies efforts to reduce climate pollutants globally, Africa in particular. However, despite these interventions, there is little scholarly information discussing the extent to which the region’s vulnerability to climate change on its economies and growing populations is addressed. Thus, this review paper examines the impacts of climate change and global warming in sub-Saharan African countries and strategies adopted to mitigate the effects on its environments and economy.

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  1. Farnborough College of Technology, University Centre Farnborough, Farnborough Hants, Hampshire, United Kingdom

    Kayode I. Adenuga

  2. Safety Technology Program, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals KFUPM, Eastern Province, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

    Abubakar Sadiq Mahmoud

  3. Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Yakubu Aminu Dodo

  4. School of ICT, ICT University, Yaoundé Campus, Yaounde, Cameroon

    Moutlen Albert

  5. Building Information Modelling, Nigeria & Family House Funds, Abuja, Nigeria

    Said Alkali Kori

  6. Public Building Department, Niger State Ministry of Works and Transport, Minna, Niger, Nigeria

    Nusa Jibril Danlami

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Adenuga, K.I., Mahmoud, A.S., Dodo, Y.A., Albert, M., Kori, S.A., Danlami, N.J. (2021). Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Sub-Saharan African Countries. In: Asif, M. (eds) Energy and Environmental Security in Developing Countries. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63654-8_16

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