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FRACTAL (Future Resilience in African CiTies And Lands) project, led by the University of Cape Town. As part of the five-year Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme, FRACTAL aimed to improve the climate resilience of cities in southern Africa and develop new methods to climate service co-production

cooperatives, 11 CBOs, 3 SACCOS, 2 primary schools and the membership has grown to about 3,040 members comprising of 1,689M, 1351F, that includes 494 youths and . The group’s major enterprises are coffee, diary, bananas, onions and vegetables. “We used to suffer from low market prices for our produce

of the management of climate risks, and develop and delivery climate services. Find out more about the publication.  UK Climate Resilience Final Conference - March 2023 The final conference of the programme took place in London on 8-9 March. This hybrid event was an opportunity to celebrate

the term ‘pouring’ is the most widely used word to describe heavy rain nationally, the cities of Cardiff, Brighton and Liverpool were found to favour ‘pissing it down’ (42%, 38% and 35% respectively). Mancunians, meanwhile, were revealed as the most likely to say that rain was ‘lashing it down

of, relevant weather and climate information by residents of informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This will enable residents to be more resilient and better prepared to take adaptive measures. The project also aims at enabling city authorities to make better climate

be expected in Greater London, for example). Although 31 July 2020 was hotter with 37.8°C at Heathrow, this was a single day in isolation, rather than a sequence of hot days lasting almost a week. The maps below show daily minimum temperatures from 8 to 16 August 2020, with a succession of uncomfortably

six days ahead and red warnings closer to the event. Pre-emptive actions were reported on the rail network, including the closure of the East Coast Main Line between London and York on the 19th. Impacts to travel, particularly rail services, began to be reported more widely with speed restrictions

in cities – the health impacts of a changing climate Author: Press Office 10 January 2023 Health is already impacted by the weather, especially in urban areas, with heat in particular causing heat-related illnesses, exacerbating existing heath conditions and excess deaths. In a changing climate

in this report (see 3.3.5). Most people live in the north and in major cities such as Manama and Riffa, and there is little agricultural production. Page 5 of 107 Bahrain experiences a hot desert climate where rain tends to fall in isolated heavy downpours. The country has already experienced