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Antananarivo, Madagascar - Rapid Climate Risk Assessment

Submitted by Ase Johannessen 25th April 2022 9:04
Antananarivo, Madagascar: skyline - view from the Haute Ville - Anosy Lake

Antananarivo, Madagascar: skyline - view from the Haute Ville - Anosy Lake with its War Memorial at the end of a causeway - panoramic view of downtown - photo by M.Torres

Summary

The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Antananarivo, Madagascar. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including climate migration, informal settlements, social inequality and the socio-economic impacts of climate change.

The report covers the main policy and program responses to climate change from national to the city level and the stakeholders. The main impacts are heat islands, droughts and storms and floods. The impact of each on society, nature and the economy have been analysed. The report highlights the past and planned investments to mitigate the impacts.

About the GCA's City Adaptation Accelerator (CAA) 

The development objective of the City Adaptation Accelerator (CAA) is to support cities and countries strengthen their urban climate adaptation and resilience outcomes through enhanced (1) understanding; (2) planning; (3) investments; and (4) governance and capacity building. The initiative’s scope is global.

In addition, all activities will adhere to four cross-cutting criteria: (A) scalability; (B) locally-led action and equity; (C) partnership; and (D) urban dialogue.

For the CAA program, improved urban climate adaptation and resilience outcomes are characterized by: 

  1. strengthened urban climate risk management[1] in cities and their hinterlands;
  2. improved climate adaptive spatial planning[2] at the municipal and regional levels;
  3. enhanced water resources management for more equitable access to ecosystem benefits;
  4. enhanced resilience, consistency, inclusiveness and integration of urban drinking water, sanitation and solid waste management services; and,
  5. improved urban livability and public health from climate risks stemming from heat stress and disease.

GCA’s City Adaptation Accelerator (CAA) will partner with national and local governments to accelerate and scale high-impact climate adaptation and resilience building efforts in cities. Technical, institutional and financial support and partnerships are urgently needed to enhance the feasibility and effectiveness of urban climate adaptation solutions that span physical, natural and social infrastructure.

As a programmatic approach, CAA will flexibly deploy a suite of decision-support tools as well as technical and financial advisory services on a demand basis – enabling cities to address climate-related urban challenges identified as the biggest impediments to long-term development. CAA will work across multiple fronts from hard investments (i.e. infrastructure), development policy (i.e. legislation, regulation) and service delivery (both formal and informal) – bringing together a diverse swath of actors ranging from national to municipal governments, local communities, international development organizations, multilateral development banks and the private sector. Climate mitigation efforts (i.e. CO2 emission reduction) are not included in this initiative; however, by pursuing green approaches (including Nature-based Solutions) to the greatest extent possible, a number of efforts will likely have significant climate co-benefits.

[1]     Common climate hazards include flood, drought, storms and fires. Risk management of these hazards will encompass the full cycle of (a) prevention, (b) mitigation, (c) protection, (d) emergency response and (e) recovery.

[2]     This will include elements related to erosion protection in coastal areas, along water bodies and in upstream catchments.