## Climate Adaptation and Energy Reform: Strengthening Botswana’s Macroeconomic Resilience

_Selected Issues Papers, December 30, 2025_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Emanuele Massetti, Danielle N Minnett, Filippos Tagklis
- Published: December 30, 2025
- Series: Selected Issues Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229035446.018

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### Overview
- Authors: Emanuele Massetti, Danielle N Minnett, Filippos Tagklis
- Date: December 30, 2025
- Summary findings:
  - Botswana faces mounting macroeconomic risks from intensifying climate trends and fiscal strain from electricity subsidies.
  - Rising temperatures, more frequent extreme heat, and longer droughts threaten agricultural yields, labor productivity, and long-term growth.
  - Electricity subsidies compound these risks by limiting the government’s capacity to respond effectively.
  - The paper examines macroeconomic and fiscal implications of climate shocks, outlines priorities for adaptation measures, and proposes energy sector reforms to reduce subsidy burdens.
  - Aligning climate resilience and energy security with fiscal sustainability is critical to safeguard development.

### Key Macroeconomic and Fiscal Risks
- Climate-related risks identified:
  - Rising temperatures.
  - More frequent extreme heat.
  - Longer droughts.
- Economic channels affected:
  - Agricultural yields.
  - Labor productivity.
  - Long-term growth prospects.
- Fiscal constraint:
  - Electricity subsidies increase fiscal strain and limit the government’s capacity to respond to climate shocks.

### Priorities for Climate Adaptation
- Principal adaptation priorities (as outlined in the paper):
  - Measures to protect and stabilize agricultural yields under longer droughts and higher temperatures.
  - Interventions to preserve labor productivity amid more frequent extreme heat.
  - Actions that enhance long-term growth resilience to climate trends.

### Energy Sector Reforms
- Core reform objectives:
  - Reduce electricity subsidy burdens to free fiscal space.
  - Strengthen energy security while supporting fiscal sustainability.
  - Integrate renewable energy and renewable resources considerations in energy sector planning.

### Policy Recommendations and Alignment
- Strategic emphasis:
  - Align climate resilience priorities with energy security goals and fiscal sustainability.
- Intended outcomes:
  - Safeguard development by reducing vulnerability to climate shocks and by alleviating subsidy-driven fiscal constraints.

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