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Bioeconomy as Climate Action: How Ready Are African Countries?
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer International Publishing, 2021.
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Abstract
- Bioeconomy is a new perspective for fighting climate change. Africa is warming faster than the global average, and climate change remains a major threat on the continent for coming decades. The development of sustainable bioeconomy is extremely important in Africa to accelerate mitigation and adaptation to climate change. However, this concept is not well diffused on the continent. The objective of this chapter is to present the current state of bioeconomy in Africa and the readiness of the member countries to adopt bioeconomy as climate action, with particular attention to the state of production determinants of a bioeconomy. The main factors and trends (both positive and negative), relating to building strategic capacity towards employing bioeconomy for climate action on the continent, are outlined. The findings and recommendations will assist both the academia and policymakers in Africa to integrate bioeconomy into their national and regional climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and action plans.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Climate change mitigation
Action (philosophy)
Natural resource economics
Political science
Climate change
010501 environmental sciences
Adaptation strategies
01 natural sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9b71ce684cecff8d8f4b707857190d8e