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Title: | Main-streaming the climate change and green growth agenda into development visions: a narrative from selected sub-Sahara African countries |
Author: | Mjimba, Vuyo |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies (ISSN 1753-7274) |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 95-112 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Cameroon Kenya Nigeria South Africa |
Subjects: | development government policy climate change |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/18186874.2014.987957 |
Abstract: | Primary commodities continue to play a critical role in the economic development of many economies in Africa. However, the climate change phenomenon is threatening the role of these commodities through two routes. First, through its demand for a development trajectory that mitigates and adapts to climate change by following a less primary commodities-intensive development agenda, and second, climate change induced extreme weather events such as floods and drought that threaten the production of some of these commodities, Through a case study of four primary commodities-intense African economies: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Cameroon, this article examines the degree and intensity of the articulation of the climate change and green growth agenda in the policy documents that shape the development agendas of these countries. The findings indicate a paucity of discussions on the green growth agenda in the development visions of all the countries except South Africa. In contrast, there is a general discussion of the challenges that climate change poses to the development efforts and articulation of the need to mitigate and adapt to these challenges. The need for mitigation and adaptation is proactively articulated in the post-2007 development visions of South Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon and retrospectively discussed through complementary policy documents supporting the pre-2007 development vision of Kenya. What remains to be determined, is how these visions will be translated into specific policies and implemented in order to enable these economies to adapt to and mitigate climate change in a manner that allows them to sustainably exploit some of their primary commodities and to compete in a world that in the future will increasingly demand green products and services. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |