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  "title": "Cabo Verde: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Policy Diagnostic",
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      "content": "- Cabo Verde faces development challenges from multiple structural factors: insularity, territorial discontinuity, fragility of ecosystems, and scarcity of natural resources, namely water and arable land.\n- Climate change implications are amplifying these structural challenges.\n- As an island extension of the arid Sahel zone, Cabo Verde faces severe water shortage.\n- The country increasingly addresses water shortage through energy intensive desalination, using electricity produced largely by thermal power plants that depend entirely on imported fossil fuels.\n- High energy prices resulting from dependence on imported fossil fuels directly impact the cost of water production.\n- The energy-water-climate nexus (energy intensive desalination, thermal generation dependent on imported fossil fuels, and climate-induced aridity) presents the core development challenge for the country."
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      "content": "- Subject: Climate change, Commodities, Electricity, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, International organization, Monetary policy, Renewable energy\n- Keywords: authorities of Cabo Verde, Climate change, climate change implication, climate change management coordination, cross government coordination, Electricity, Global, government transfer, Greenhouse gas emissions, policy priority, Renewable energy\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Tarea2024040\n  - Tarea2024040 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Tarea2024040 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/technical-assistance-reports/issues/2024/05/17/cabo-verde-technical-assistance-report-climate-policy-diagnostic-549151"
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    "Series: Technical Assistance Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400276675.019",
    "Cabo Verde faces development challenges from multiple structural factors: insularity, territorial discontinuity, fragility of ecosystems, and scarcity of natural resources, namely water and arable land.",
    "Climate change implications are amplifying these structural challenges.",
    "As an island extension of the arid Sahel zone, Cabo Verde faces severe water shortage.",
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    "The energy-water-climate nexus (energy intensive desalination, thermal generation dependent on imported fossil fuels, and climate-induced aridity) presents the core development challenge for the country.",
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