Climate Uganda

Climate Change in Uganda: Understanding the implications and appraising the response

Scoping Mission for DFID Uganda July 2008
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Main author
Nick Hepworth Senior Consultant LTS International Ltd. [e-mail],
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Contributing author
(Box 2 Implications of climate change for Lake Victoria and Nile flows and technical review)
Marisa Goulden
Senior Research Fellow
Overseas Development Group
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ
Citation Reference:
Hepworth, N. and Goulden, M., 2008, Climate Change in Uganda: Understanding the implications and appraising the response, LTS International, Edinburgh
Front plates: top left, main author; top right, bottom left and right, Uganda NAPA, Ministry of Water and Environment
Executive summary 1. Uganda’s climate is naturally variable and susceptible to flood and drought events which have had negative socio-economic impacts in the past. Human induced climate change is likely to increase average temperatures in Uganda by up to 1.5 °C in the next 20 years and by up to 4.3 °C by the 2080s. Such rates of increase are unprecedented. Changes in rainfall patterns and total annual rainfall amounts are also expected but these are less certain than changes in temperature. The climate of Uganda may become wetter on average and the increase in rainfall may be unevenly distributed and occur as more extreme or

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