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COVID-19 response in Africa: impacts and lessons for environmental management and climate change adaptation

The COVID-19 pandemic adds pressure on Africa; the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts, threatening the realization of most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The continent is witnessing an increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and environmental change. Th...

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Autores principales: Ongoma, Victor, Epule, Terence Epule, Brouziyne, Youssef, Tanarhte, Meryem, Chehbouni, Abdelghani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9873540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36714211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-02956-0
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author Ongoma, Victor
Epule, Terence Epule
Brouziyne, Youssef
Tanarhte, Meryem
Chehbouni, Abdelghani
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Epule, Terence Epule
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Tanarhte, Meryem
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description The COVID-19 pandemic adds pressure on Africa; the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts, threatening the realization of most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The continent is witnessing an increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and environmental change. The COVID-19 was managed relatively well across in the continent, providing lessons and impetus for environmental management and addressing climate change. This work examines the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment and climate change, analyses its management and draws lessons from it for climate change response in Africa. The data, findings and lessons are drawn from peer reviewed articles and credible grey literature on COVID-19 in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly, causing loss of lives and stagnation of the global economy, overshadowing the current climate crisis. The pandemic was managed through swift response by the top political leadership, research and innovations across Africa providing possible solutions to COVID-19 challenges, and redirection of funds to manage the pandemic. The well-coordinated COVID-19 containment strategy under the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased sharing of resources including data was a success in limiting the spread of the virus. These strategies, among others, proved effective in limiting the spread and impact of COVID-19. The findings provide lessons that stakeholders and policy-makers can leverage in the management of the environment and address climate change. These approaches require solid commitment and practical-oriented leadership. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-023-02956-0.
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spelling pubmed-98735402023-01-25 COVID-19 response in Africa: impacts and lessons for environmental management and climate change adaptation Ongoma, Victor Epule, Terence Epule Brouziyne, Youssef Tanarhte, Meryem Chehbouni, Abdelghani Environ Dev Sustain Review The COVID-19 pandemic adds pressure on Africa; the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts, threatening the realization of most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The continent is witnessing an increase in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, and environmental change. The COVID-19 was managed relatively well across in the continent, providing lessons and impetus for environmental management and addressing climate change. This work examines the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment and climate change, analyses its management and draws lessons from it for climate change response in Africa. The data, findings and lessons are drawn from peer reviewed articles and credible grey literature on COVID-19 in Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly, causing loss of lives and stagnation of the global economy, overshadowing the current climate crisis. The pandemic was managed through swift response by the top political leadership, research and innovations across Africa providing possible solutions to COVID-19 challenges, and redirection of funds to manage the pandemic. The well-coordinated COVID-19 containment strategy under the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased sharing of resources including data was a success in limiting the spread of the virus. These strategies, among others, proved effective in limiting the spread and impact of COVID-19. The findings provide lessons that stakeholders and policy-makers can leverage in the management of the environment and address climate change. These approaches require solid commitment and practical-oriented leadership. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10668-023-02956-0. Springer Netherlands 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9873540/ /pubmed/36714211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-02956-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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