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The document outlines Uganda's transition to multiparty democracy and its current governance structure. It details the country's natural resource wealth, specifically the discovery of oil reserves on Lake Albert and the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), while noting environmental opposition from the European Union Parliament. The text also traces Uganda's economic planning from early independence through to Vision 2040 and the current Third National Development Plan (NDPIII), which focuses on resource-led industrialisation to achieve upper-middle-income status by 2040.

Niger is a low-income, landlocked country in Western Africa facing severe developmental challenges, ranking 189th out of 191 countries on the 2024 Human Development Index. The country is characterized by extreme heat and rainfall variability, with desertification and climate change increasing vulnerabilities. Politically, Niger has experienced a history of instability, most recently marked by a July 2023 military coup that deposed President Mohamed Bazoum. This shift led to the withdrawal of French and US military forces and Niger's exit from ECOWAS and the G5 Sahel to join the Alliance of Sahel States and the Confederation of Sahel States. Despite seeking new partners like Russia, China, and Türkiye, the security situation remains precarious due to Islamist insurgent activity and internal dissent from groups such as the Patriotic Liberation Front.

The document outlines the legal right of communities to participate in environmental decision-making for onshore oil and gas projects. It details the two primary phases of the EIA process—Scoping and the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)—and provides a structured set of questions to help citizens identify impacts on health, water, livelihoods, and climate change when submitting formal comments.

The document identifies the Zululand and Mpumalanga regions of South Africa as critical habitats hosting over 350 bird species, including five of the country's most endangered bird species, and serving as a source for many major rivers.

A group of NGOs, including the Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy, has endorsed the Geothermal Sustainable Development Pact. The organizations highlight the pact's role in establishing best practices for next-generation geothermal energy, specifically praising its focus on community engagement, environmental protections, and data transparency regarding water use and hydraulic fracturing fluids.

Several organizations welcome the Geothermal Sustainable Development Pact, noting that next-generation geothermal technologies can provide clean heat and electricity. They highlight the pact's focus on community engagement, environmental protection, and data transparency, specifically regarding hydraulic fracturing fluids and water intensity.

The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Assembly (BABMA) has developed a Climate Adaptation Plan (2025–2030) to address increasing temperatures and erratic rainfall. The plan identifies high vulnerabilities in agriculture, water resources, forestry, biodiversity, fisheries, tourism, human health, and gender. It proposes 88 adaptation options, with a total estimated implementation cost of GHC 171,429,795.00. Key priorities include rainwater harvesting for irrigation, early warning systems for disasters, and gender-responsive healthcare and agricultural support.

The document argues that while the core vision of the 1998 White Paper on Local Government remains relevant, the operational assumptions—particularly regarding funding and administration—are outdated. PARI identifies a cycle of decline driven by financial stress, patronage-based appointments, and infrastructure decay. It proposes a differentiated local government design where powers and functions are allocated based on a municipality's capacity and location in the space-economy. Key recommendations include reforming the political-administrative interface to reduce patronage, establishing clear affordability standards for basic services, and integrating climate-appropriate infrastructure requirements into the updated policy framework.

Togo has produced its first communication on climate change adaptation to the UNFCCC, consolidating vulnerability and adaptation studies from the agriculture, water resources, human settlements, health, and coastal zone sectors. The report builds upon the 2016 National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and the 2020 National Adaptation Plan for the Health Sector (PNAS), while emphasizing the need to integrate climate adaptation into local development plans for communes as part of the country's decentralization process.

The document outlines a methodological framework for gender mainstreaming within Senegal's climate adaptation planning. It identifies specific entry points across 14 process steps—from launch to notification—and provides seven key tools, including gender analysis and gender-responsive budgeting. It highlights the disproportionate impact of climate change on women in Senegal and offers a series of national and international best practices to ensure equitable benefits from adaptation measures.

The report highlights that agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are major emission sources but receive only 8% of climate finance. It proposes blended finance as a mechanism to mitigate risks—such as lack of credit history and misaligned investment terms—to unlock private capital. The text notes that 59 blended finance transactions totaling $7 billion have occurred in the region, primarily in Brazil and Colombia, with a significant focus on agroforestry.

A coalition of environmental and legal organizations is urging the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to oppose S. 362. The authors argue that the bill would permit destructive longwall mining of federal coal by Signal Peak Energy, LLC, bypassing required environmental impact statements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The statement highlights the mine's significant greenhouse gas emissions, its history of damaging water resources used by local ranchers, and the criminal records of Signal Peak Energy and its owners. The coalition asserts that the company has a pattern of violating environmental and safety laws and has aggressively avoided local taxes while harming the community.

The research applies a driver-response model to two watersheds in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands to analyze social-ecological interactions. In the Río Magdalena, smallholder agriculture employs low-impact adaptive strategies. In Ambos Nogales, urban growth and infrastructure-based solutions, such as inter-basin water transfers, dominate, while wastewater flows and climate change present ongoing challenges. The study argues that cross-border collaboration is essential for adaptation in these mutually conditioned systems.

The study analyzes the hydrogeomorphological dynamics of the Bajo de Sarmiento basin from the Holocene to the present, combining geological data, satellite imagery, and social surveys. It finds that while climate variability and aridity have historically been the primary drivers of water body dynamics, human activities over the last 120 years have intensified these effects, resulting in a shift from an exorheic to an endorheic basin regime and the near-disappearance of one of the lakes by 2016.

The Gender and Climate Change Action Plan of the Republic of Haiti outlines a framework to integrate gender-responsive institutional arrangements and projects into national climate adaptation. It identifies four priority areas: capacity building, awareness raising, gender-sensitive budgeting, and the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation framework. The plan includes 11 priority activities, with six categorized as imperative, and estimates a total funding requirement of USD 1,650,000 for 2025–2030.

The Republic of Haiti's Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan aims to operationalize gender equality within its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) by 2030. The plan identifies four priority areas: knowledge management and capacity building, awareness and communication, gender-responsive budgeting, and a monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework. It outlines 11 priority activities, including training for gender focal points and the introduction of gender-sensitive budget lines. The total estimated cost for implementation from 2025 to 2030 is $1,650,000 USD, to be funded through national budgets and international climate funds such as the Green Climate Fund and the Adaptation Fund.

The report analyzes the crisis in La Jagua de Ibirico, Cesar, triggered by Prodeco's 2021 renunciation of mining titles. It highlights a severe mismatch between the high social, environmental, and economic impacts of mine closures and the limited legal competencies and financial resources of municipal governments. The document details the collapse of the local economy, significant loss of tax revenue, and persistent environmental liabilities, while proposing the creation of a permanent subregional fund and the strengthening of local institutional capacities to manage a transition beyond coal.

The assessment identifies agriculture as the most vulnerable sector in the Kassena Nankana Municipality, with high sensitivity in zonal councils like Biu and Doba due to the prevalence of mud-brick housing and flood-prone farmlands. While the quantitative Vulnerability Index suggests that adaptive capacity currently outweighs exposure and sensitivity across all zonal councils, Naaga is identified as the most vulnerable area due to its low adaptive capacity and high exposure to the White Volta River. Future projections indicate rising temperatures and irregular rainfall, which are expected to reduce maize and soybean yields and increase the prevalence of climate-sensitive diseases like cerebrospinal meningitis.

The report provides a comprehensive vulnerability assessment for the Kintampo Municipal Assembly, identifying agriculture as the most sensitive sector. It combines historical climate data (1980–2020) with future projections to 2100, highlighting increasing temperatures and variable rainfall. The study identifies specific community-level vulnerabilities, with Busuama being the most vulnerable and Kintampo the least, and recommends targeted adaptation strategies including conservation agriculture, irrigation, and gender-responsive initiatives.

The assessment identifies the Awaso Zonal Council as the most vulnerable area in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai municipality due to high exposure to bushfires and droughts, combined with high sensitivity in agriculture and infrastructure. Agriculture and human health are ranked as the most vulnerable sectors, with rainfall variability and rising temperatures threatening crop yields and increasing disease prevalence. Projections indicate annual rainfall will increase to 1678 mm by 2050, while both day and night temperatures are expected to rise by 1°C by mid-century. The report recommends policy interventions including livelihood diversification, the construction of feeder roads, the implementation of early warning systems, and the promotion of climate-smart agriculture and irrigation.