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Nova Publicação: Nota de Cabo Verde Blue Bond
Author: WACA Program/ World Bank
O Governo de Cabo Verde reconhece o potencial de crescimento do seu capital natural costeiro e marinho e a necessidade de o preservar. Está a prestar cada vez mais atenção ao potencial de uma estratégia de economia azul que poderia servir como um factor-chave para o crescimento e a redução da pobreza, preservando simultaneamente o ambiente e aumentando a sua resistência às alterações climáticas.
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Witteveen + Bos: SA-PoD Systems Approach for Port Development
Author: Witteveen+Bos
Port developments around the world, West Africa included, often impact the coastal environment, posing challenges like erosion and degradation of environment with negative socio-economic implications. To develop sustainable ports solutions which are adaptable to climate change and have net positive value a paradigm shift is required from a conventional, economic and engineering oriented approach to a stakeholder inclusive and environmental, social and economic integrated approach.
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IMDC: BESand - The Blue Energy Sand-Bypass System
With BESand, the Blue Energy Sand-Bypass System, IMDC offers a UNIQUE, INNOVATIVE and FEASIBLE solution to fight coastal erosion associated with the ongoing development of large commercial ports. In many cases port infrastructure intersects the littoral drift, which leads to erosion downdrift. BESand’s groundbreaking innovation is transferring wave energy back into sediment transport movement. This is achieved by an integrated concept consisting of a multipurpose breakwater, a novel hybrid Wave Energy Convertor (h-WEC) and a sand-bypass system powered by blue energy. Port infrastructure becomes thus part of the solution by creating strategic sediment reservoirs and by restoring the natural sediment supply.
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CoastalProtect Africa : Multi-Purpose Technology for an Integrated Solution to Coastal Erosion and Sediment Management for West Africa
Author: Integral Consulting
Integral Consulting Inc. (Integral) is a leading environmental and engineering consultancy company based in Seattle, WA USA, with a global reputation for delivering successful, high value, multi-partner projects. We have formed a consortium of companies and individuals with a high level of integrity, and the technical and scientific expertise capable of executing the projects in our response to this Call for Innovation. Consortium members are from the United States, Senegal, Tunisia, and the Netherlands. Our Senegalese partners have been involved at all stages of our proposal, and through them we have received valuable feedback from Senegalese stakeholders.
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Root
Author: Seaboost
ROOT IS AN INNOVATIVE NATURE-BASED-SOLUTION THAT SUPPORTS MANGROVE RESTORATION THROUGH THE RESTORATION OF SUITABLE HYDRO-SEDIMENTARY CONDITIONS FOR SPONTANEOUS MANGROVE RECOVERY AND REPRODUCES MANGROVE PERFORMANCES FOR COASTLINE PROTECTION.
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SMPNetwork
Author: Niras
NIRAS has prepared an innovative idea and a well-defined programme with a clear purpose of elaborating Shoreline Management Planning (SMP) Guidelines for each member state engaging all key stakeholders in a participatory SMP process.
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Video of the Additional Protocol to the Abidjan Convention
Author: The Regional Partnership for the Conservation of the Coastal and Marine Zone in West Africa
Video of the additional protocol to the Abidjan Convention
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Video of Private Sector Commiting to Coastal Resilience
Author: World Bank
The celebration of Earth Day should cause us to pause and consider the state of our planet.
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St Louis, Senegal: Coastal Communities Facing Waves of Change
Author: World Bank
Saint Louis’s coastal community is losing ground to the ocean each year, and families are losing their possessions, food and homes to coastal erosion, flooding, even breaking waves. But West Africa’s countries are working together, with the support of WACA, to create new solutions to protect the most vulnerable.
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World Bank Econothon: WACA and Blue Economy with Karin Kemper, Director
Author: World Bank
WACA was presented as bringing key solutions to coastal resilience by World Bank Director, Karin Kemper (watch starting at 40:00) at a 24 hour Econothon.
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West Africa: Rising Tides Threaten Livelihoods along the Coastline
Author: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Preserving and protecting the coastline along West Africa is critical. A large proportion of West Africa's population lives in areas that are most at risk of coastal erosion, where rising tides threaten their livelihoods and the communities they have built and lived in for generations.
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Tenir l’océan à distance en Afrique de l’Ouest
Author: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
En cette semaine de la Journée mondiale de l’océan, rappelons-nous qu’un tiers de la population d’Afrique de l’Ouest vit sur le littoral. Elle est confrontée à la montée des eaux et à l’érosion côtière qui détruit chaque année entre 23 et 30 mètres de terre. Le Programme de gestion du littoral ouest-africain (WACA) aide les pays africains à y faire face en leur fournissant des ressources techniques et financières adaptées.
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Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg: The Dire Threat of Climate Change
Author: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Climate Change and Ocean Systems specialist, Professor Ove Hoegh-Gulderg, conveys his regret for being unable to attend the Blue Economy Conference in Mauritius. He emphasizes the important of urgent global action on climate change and ocean conservation to prevent a disastrous loss of ocean habit that will have very damaging consequences to people and the environment. The ocean is essential for life on earth, and supports millions of species and billions of people.
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Living on the Edge: Saving West Africa Coastal Assets
Author: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
The communities who have lived on West Africa’s coastal areas for centuries are at the greatest risk of climate change. As sea levels rise, and severe weather events increase in frequency due to climate change, the safety and wellbeing of coastal communities is at peril, with poor and marginalized populations proving most vulnerable. Without concrete measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, West Africa’s development achievements, as well as hopes for continued growth and poverty reduction, will be severely compromised.
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Littoral fragile : Relevons les défis de la côte ouest-africaine
Author: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Les villages côtiers d’Afrique de l’Ouest font face au risque d’une catastrophe écologique. L’érosion et les inondations menacent les moyens de subsistance des communautés du littoral. Ce sont les conséquences les plus visibles du changement climatique le long des côtes d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Sans mesures adéquates d’atténuation et d’adaptation, le changement et la variabilité climatique mettront en péril les progrès durement acquis du développement en Afrique et contrecarreront les ambitions africaines de croissance et de réduction de la pauvreté.