Africa Environment Outlook - 2Africa Environment Outlook - 2

Environment for development

Environmental State-and-trends: 20-year Retrospective

Emerging Challenges

Outlook

Back To Our Common Future

Partners and collaborating centresPartners and collaborating centres

Environment underpins developmentEnvironment underpins development

Environment underpins development

Africa’s resources are being under valued and under utilized

Africa’s the second largest continent in the world and its land supports over 70% of the population

Africa is endowed with enormous potential for solar energy.

There is high wind energy potential in Northern Africa and southern part of South Africa.

Traditional medicinal plants derived from forests support a US$ 100 million industry in Africa

Forests and woodlands account for about 6% of Gross Domestic Product in Africa

Coastal areas are the most important economic

zones, supporting ecotourism in Africa

Emerging challengesEmerging challenges

The actions identified in this report emphasize the need for investment in

human, social, economic and environmental capital in Africa if the region is to prosper.