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IOC is involved in developing approaches to mitigate the effects of climate change on coastal areas, which is exacerbating the vulnerability of ecosystems, coastal infrastructure, biodiversity, agriculture, fishing, and drinking water resources.
ACCC is a GEF/UNDP project being implemented by UNESCO/IOC at the request of Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal. It was initiated by the African Process and taken up in the Action Plan for the Environmental Initiative of NEPAD.
The objectives of the ACCC project are to perform adaptation actions in pilot sites particularly vulnerable to natural climate changes and to anthropogenic degradation in the short, medium and long term (erosion, mangrove destruction…). These actions could serve as an example for future regional and global application. Another major objective of the project is to formulate national and regional strategies of adaptation aiming at managing the impact of changes to the shoreline, in the framework of ICAM. The ACCC project will run for 4 years [2007-2010], in the form of one Full Size Project (GEF FSP).
The ACCC pre-project objectives were to select pilot sites and protection actions, to consult stakeholders, to identify co-financing or technical partners.
The main ACCC project proposal has been approved by GEF council in July 2006.
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