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Ensuring climate information guides long-term development

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Many sub-Saharan countries are failing to include climate information in long-term development planning. Ensuring climate-resilient development requires a step change in how medium- to long-term climate information is produced, communicated and utilized in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Additional financial support for P.S. was provided by the Norwegian Research Council.

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  1. Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ, London, UK

    Lindsey Jones & Thomas Tanner

  2. Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Andrew Dougill

  3. Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK

    Richard G. Jones

  4. Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), University of Cape Town, Environmental and Geographical Science, Private Bag X3, Capetown, 7701, South Africa

    Anna Steynor

  5. Paul Watkiss Associates, 18 Islip Road, Oxford, OX2 7SN, UK

    Paul Watkiss

  6. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Le Sextant, 44 Boulevard de Dunkerque, CS 90009, 13572, Marseille cedex 02, France

    Cheikh Kane

  7. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Leeghwaterplein 27, 2521 CV, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Bettina Koelle & Pablo Suarez

  8. African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), BP 3001, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Wilfran Moufouma-Okia

  9. International START Secretariat, 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Suite 200, 20009, Washington DC, USA

    Jon Padgham

  10. Research and Evidence Division, Department for International Development (DFID), 22 Whitehall, SW1A 2EG, London, UK

    Nicola Ranger

  11. SouthSouthNorth (SSN), 55 Salt River Road, Salt River, 7925, Cape Town, South Africa

    Jean-Pierre Roux

  12. Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, 67 Bay State Road, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

    Pablo Suarez

  13. Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (Pty) Ltd, Postnet Suite H79, Private Bag x9118, Pietermaritzburg, 3200, South Africa

    Katharine Vincent

  14. School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, 2050, WITS, South Africa

    Katharine Vincent

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Jones, L., Dougill, A., Jones, R. et al. Ensuring climate information guides long-term development. Nature Clim Change 5, 812–814 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2701

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