## Cabo Verde: Technical Assistance Report-Climate Policy Diagnostic

_Technical Assistance Reports, May 17, 2024_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 17, 2024
- Series: Technical Assistance Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400276675.019

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### Summary of core findings
- 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.
- 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.
- High energy prices resulting from dependence on imported fossil fuels directly impact the cost of water production.
- 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.

### Subjects and keywords (as listed)
- Subject: Climate change, Commodities, Electricity, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, International organization, Monetary policy, Renewable energy
- 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

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