38d63d4e-06ec-4754-beea-f82df505248a 8ae26013-56bc-4b78-a4f7-a53e0472cfce Irit Eguavoen eguavoen@uni-bonn.de 2016-01-06T10:57:33 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (The Gambia) 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. Irit Eguavoen Center for Development Research, Department for Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn Senior Researcher +49-228-73-4912 Walter-Flex-Straße 3 Bonn 53113 Germany eguavoen@uni-bonn.de Republic of The Gambia Banjul Gambia http://www.statehouse.gm/ Republic of The Gambia State House Online https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=38d63d4e-06ec-4754-beea-f82df505248a&fname=type_scientific_publication.png large_thumbnail png governance mitigation environmental and climate change Gambia Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions No restrictions society -17.20457151572351 -13.381329328755866 12.897480250343605 13.88073694489515 PDF http://unfccc.int/files/focus/application/pdf/nama_foc_prop_gambia.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions source for download