Somalia’s National Climate Change Action Plan, 2025–2030

Somalia’s National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) 2025–2030 provides a strategic roadmap to transition from climate planning to implementation. With a total estimated budget of USD 5.486 billion, the plan prioritizes adaptation across eight key sectors—including agriculture, water, and energy—while targeting a 34% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. The framework emphasizes climate justice, gender equality, and conflict sensitivity, recognizing climate change as a "threat multiplier" in Somalia's fragile socio-political context.

• The NCCAP 2025–2030 requires a total estimated budget of USD 5.4859 billion, comprising USD 3.418 billion for adaptation, USD 2.0679 billion for mitigation, and USD 460 million for enabling and cross-cutting actions.
• Somalia aims to reduce its projected greenhouse gas emissions to 55.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) by 2035, representing a 34% reduction relative to a business-as-usual scenario of 84.9 MtCO2e.
• The plan identifies eight priority areas for action: agriculture, livestock, fisheries, and food security (USD 1,774 million); energy and transport (USD 913 million); forestry and biodiversity (USD 613 million); water resource management (USD 600 million); municipalities and urban development (USD 450 million); health, sanitation, and human settlements (USD 322 million); climate information (USD 190 million); and disaster risk management (USD 164 million).
• Climate change is characterized as a "threat multiplier" in Somalia, where it exacerbates competition over scarce natural resources, triggers migration, and fuels intercommunal tensions, particularly in pastoralist and agropastoral communities.
• The plan emphasizes the disproportionate impact of climate change on women, youth, and internally displaced persons (IDPs), noting that women often bear the brunt of hardships such as walking longer distances for water and facing higher risks of gender-based violence in displacement settings.
• Somalia's vulnerability is heightened by its dependence on the Juba and Shabelle rivers, which originate in Ethiopia, leaving the country susceptible to upstream water governance decisions and hydrological shocks without formal water-sharing agreements.
• The government intends to establish specialized "Climate Change Justice Units" (courts or tribunals) to handle climate-related disputes and implement conflict impact assessments for all climate projects.
• A key institutional goal is the operationalization of the Somali National Meteorological Agency (SNMA) by 2027 to serve as the national authority for climate and meteorological services.

APA

NAP Global Network (2026). Somalia’s National Climate Change Action Plan, 2025–2030. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/somalia-climate-change-action-plan-V4.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Somalia’s National Climate Change Action Plan, 2025–2030. 2026. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/somalia-climate-change-action-plan-V4.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2026somalias, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Somalia’s National Climate Change Action Plan, 2025–2030}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2026}, month = feb, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/somalia-climate-change-action-plan-V4.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }