The 2000 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory of The Gambia shows national

emission total of about 20.02 Million Tons CO2 Equivalent (TCO2E) and per capita

emissions of 13.5 TCO2E. This is insignificant compared to other country emissions.

However, as a Party to the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol,

Gambia is willing to participate in mitigating global emissions and their

concentrations in the atmosphere with the first step of conducting a mitigation

assessment and developing this NAMA document.

Trend analysis of climate data from 1951 to date shows a progressively warming and drier Gambia. Using General Circulation Model outputs, national temperatures are projected to increase by about 0.3OC in 2010 to about 3.9OC in 2100. Rainfall is also projected to decrease by about 1% in 2010 to about 54% in 2100. This confirms previous

results of in the First National Communication that with increase in temperatures under a warming climate, rainfall in The Gambia would correspondingly decrease.

The development challenges of The Gambia will be significant as the country faces complex economic, social and technological choices based on the climate change impacts already enumerated in the preceding paragraph. This is compounded by the inadequate capacities, inadequacies in the existing technologies and the non availability of

domestic funding from both the public and private sectors for climate change.