The document discusses climate change financing for Sierra Leone. It explains that climate finance encompasses obligations by UNFCCC parties and use of development finance for climate objectives. Climate finance is needed for both adaptation and mitigation and to leverage private sector investment. Sierra Leone needs a budget line item for climate finance from domestic or external sources like the Green Climate Fund to support adaptation activities combining climate and development funds to help farmers adapt agricultural practices.

1. CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING
• The term climate finance has evolved in the last few
years of climate negotiations to encompass many
different things. It includes specific obligations by
countries, parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. Increasingly climate
finance also includes the use of development finance,
when that is used to achieve climate objectives.
Climate finance is based on the premise that public
funds will be needed for both adaptation and
mitigation and that those funds will be needed to
leverage private sector finance into mitigation and
adaptation.

2. • So for Sierra Leone, the Government needs to
include a line item in its budget for climate
finance with funds raised domestically to support
it or channeled through a multilateral
development bank, through a bilateral
development agency, or through the Green
Climate Fund or a new mechanism that may be
created. And that may be used in conjunction
with development assistance, ODA, that is
already given to the country. And the country will
use those two things together to help, for
example, farmers change their agricultural
practices, thus, making their agriculture more
resilient to the impacts of climate change, thus,
an adaptation activity.

4. SIERRA LEONE CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHIC
SPECIFICITIES
Its 465 km low-lying plain sandy coastline open to the
Atlantic Ocean representing 7.3% of its territory, into which
major rivers empty
The existence of vast water resources but geographically
variable and scarcer during dry season with nine watersheds
and twenty major rivers including Pampana Rokel, Sewa and
Moa, Little Scarcies, Great Scarcies and Mano which have
their sources in the neighboring countries of Guinea and
Liberia
An essentially tropical climate characterized by high
precipitation and humidity, varying in space and time, with
heavy rainfall in the wet season and pronounced dry season

6. CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT GOALS
• TO ENHANCE SIERRA LEONE’S CAPABILITY TO PREVENT, MITIGATE,
PREPARE FOR & RESPOND APPROPRIATELY AND TIMELY BY:
(I) Preventing Potential Risks Becoming Real Risks
(11) Existing Risks Becoming Disasters
(111) Localized Disasters Becoming National Scale
Disasters
(1V) Respond To National Scale of Climate Change
Disasters

7. STRATEGY
• Empower Sierra Leone to be capable of responding appropriately
and timely to:
A. Localized climate change disasters in order to avoid them
becoming national scale disasters
B. Respond to national scale disasters considering the
importance of certain natural and man-made hazards and
vulnerabilities
C. Empower Sierra Leone to be capable of preventing:
(i) Existing risks becoming disasters
(ii)Potential risks becoming real risks.
•

8. THE NEED FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
FINANCING
PONDER ON THIS: Can the Sustainable Development Goals
along with the international strategies and
instruments aiming at poverty reduction
and environmental protection, be
successful without taking into account the
risk of CLIMATE CHANGE hazards and
their impacts?
CAN THE PLANET AFFORD
THE INCREASING COSTS
AND LOSSES DUE TO
CLIMATE CHANGE?
THE SHORT
ANSWER IS
NO!