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Africa is the continent the most vulnerable to climate change, despite accounting for under 4 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change acts as a threat multiplier to existing challenges, including food insecurity, water scarcity, waterborne diseases, governance challenges and conflicts across the continent.
Hundreds of millions of people are being impacted. 70 percent of the total African population depends on agriculture, with 95 percent of this food production relying on rainfall. Increasingly uncertain rainfall and extreme weather patterns are having severe ramifications for food security, poverty eradication, and the achievement and maintenance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ACAI works with a range of partners to strengthen the climate change response across Africa and in Canada. ACAI also engages in capacity building training, knowledge sharing, community building and fundraising activities.
The Africa Climate Action Initiative (ACAI) works alongside African communities on the front lines of climate change. O...