UN: Climate adaptation investment will ensure Africa's growth

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New report highlights how protecting continent's economy against droughts, heat waves, and floods, will enhance economic development

Investment in climate change adaptation will prevent decades of development in Africa being undone by water shortages or floods, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The organisation's...

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