(Excerpted from FCFA site)

Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to weather and climate variability as well as future climate change. African countries are already incorporating climate change responses into strategies and plans in order to help manage these impacts. But many decision-makers struggle to access relevant climate information.

Investment in usable and useful climate information provides an important means of reducing climate related risks today, and to account for future climate risks in plans, policies and actions. This investment helps to enable Africa’s aspirations for more effective disaster risk management, resilience to climate change and climate-smart development.

The Future Climate for Africa programme has been at work to fill this need, emphasising a transdisciplinary approach to knowledge production and mobilisation through strengthened climate research and improved policy/decision-making capacity on the continent