High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports

Cabo Verde: Climate Policy Assessment

Author/Editor:

Katja Funke ; Alberto Garcia Huitron ; Didier Tabaro

Publication Date:

April 16, 2024

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

Cabo Verde faces development challenges from multiple structural factors, including insularity, territorial discontinuity, fragility of ecosystems, and scarcity of natural resources, namely water and arable land. Climate change implications are amplifying these challenges. As an island extension of the arid Sahel zone, Cabo Verde faces severe water shortage, which the country addresses more and more through energy intensive desalination, using electricity produced largely by thermal power plants, which depend entirely on imported fossil fuels. The resulting high energy prices directly impact the cost of water production. In conjunction with climate change induced aridity, the energy-water-climate nexus presents the core development challenge for the country.

Series:

High Level Summary Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/013

Subject:

Climate change Climate policy Environment International organization Monetary policy Renewable energy Tariffs Taxes

Frequency:

Regular