Ghana is expected to experience more acute climate hazards such as flooding, as well as more frequent and intense droughts as a result of climate change.
This threatens the socio-economic development that has helped strongly position Ghana as a middle-income country. Climate-related extreme events have the potential to put years of progress toward growth and development targets at risk.
In an effort to mitigate the impact of climate change on Ghana's infrastructure systems, the Government of Ghana and the Global Center on Adaptation, with support from the United Nations Office of Project Services, United Nations Environment Program and the University of Oxford, in July 2020 decided to undertake a national assessment to assess the impacts of climate change on Ghana's National Infrastructure and identify adaptation measures to mitigate these impacts.
- See the Ghana: Roadmap for resilient infrastructure in a changing climate from the Global Center on Adaption website.
