Cabo Verde: Climate Policy Assessment
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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
English
Publication Date:
April 16, 2024
ISBN/ISSN:
9798400273841/2959-4103
Stock No:
HLSEA2024013
Format:
Paper
Pages:
5
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