African countries to benefit from Canadian climate crisis project

Initiative aims to help researchers and policymakers in the global south respond to disasters

The International Development Research Centre in Canada has launched a project to strengthen the capacity of researchers and policymakers in the global south to respond to losses caused by climate change.

The C$1.5 million (US$1.1m) project will help develop loss and damage policies and implementation mechanisms at the national level in four countries that are vulnerable to climate change: Bangladesh, Nepal, Senegal and Vanuatu. Another five countries will benefit from project data: Antigua and Barbuda, Burkina Faso, the Maldives, Mozambique and Pakistan.