Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Planning in Addis Ababa City

Abstract

The hazards which were related to climate changes such as drought, heavy rain and high temperature have social and economic impacts on Addis Ababa City's population. This was motivated points for this work. The objective of this seminar was to investigate the climate change and proposed mitigation and adaptation plan of Addis Ababa city. The data collection for this study were collected from secondary sources which were mainly raw temperature and rainfall data of two main stations of Addis Ababa city observed for 30 years by National Metrological Agency. Literature review of other documents from different Libraries and internet concerning about status qua analysis were also made to complement and refine the information that had been collected. The status qua analysis had shown that, the city of Addis Ababa has experienced both warm and cool years over the last 30 years. There has been an increasing warming trend in the annual maximum temperature over the past 30 years. However, the trend analysis had shown almost, the constant minimum average annual temperature of the city. The most vulnerable sectors to climate variability and change were agriculture, water and human health. It could also be said that, the sources and cause of emission for carbon dioxide of Addis Ababa city were energy, transport, waste, industry, livestock and agriculture.