// SUSTAINABILITY: DISASTER RESILIENCE AND RESPONSE
A s Africa pursues sustainable development, mounting global crises – including climate change, protracted conflicts and global economic instability – overshadow progress and erode development strides made. The convergence of these shocks threatens to destabilise the continent’s growth trajectory. Still, the region must stand firm and build momentum in responding to one of the greatest threats of our time: climate change. Like many developing countries in the Global South, Africa is dispropor- tionately affected by the climate crisis, despite contributing less than 4% to global warming. According to the African Development Bank, Africa is home to nine of the ten most climate-vulnerable countries globally, thereby increasing its vulnerability. The continent faces accelerated warming. Intensifying droughts, floods, cyclones, rising sea levels and other climate-induced disasters have become a source of unprecedented destruction, trapping communities in cycles of devastation. Not surprisingly,
Facing escalating losses from droughts, floods and other extreme events, Africa can safeguard its future by leading on climate adaptation and forging new partnerships for a sustainable, more climate-secure future Africa must champion climate resilience and adaptation
Jean Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, director-general, African Risk Capacity Group
106 // G20 SOUTH AFRICA: THE JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT 2025
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