Kabul – UN Environment and Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency have released the country’s most up-to-date and detailed climate change projections in a new publication titled “Afghanistan: Climate Change Science Perspectives.” This report is the first of its kind and puts valuable information in the hands of the Afghanistan’s leaders, decision-makers, and environmental groups to help build Afghanistan’s resilience to climate change.
Climate change is having serious impacts on Afghanistan’s people and ecosystems, making it among the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change. Even under the most optimistic scenarios for limited global greenhouse gas emissions, Afghanistan will have to adapt to steep temperature increases and changes in precipitation patterns.
Recognizing these threats, UN Environment and the National Environmental Protection Agency developed these new climate change projections in order to fill the existing gap of scientifically robust climate data in Afghanistan. It is hoped that his information will help mainstream climate change into Afghanistan’s development process as a vital step towards mitigating climate change.
Since 2002, UN Environment has supported the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to build its adaptive capacity to the adverse impacts of climate change. Across the country, and at the national level, UN Environment and NEPA have worked closely to address climate change at both the policy and practical levels, including working with local communities across four provinces to build grassroots-level resilience to climate change.
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