has revealed the capacities or otherwise of three West African countries to meet their climate change pledges.
According to experts, Africa's vulnerability to climate change suggests that governments must join the rest of the world in taking ambitious climate action to increase the continent's resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change. However, a major question remains whether Africa can meet the ambitious climate pledges they are making, particularly with a widespread apprehension about the feasibility of African climate pledges.
Extensive research has shown that the ability of countries to implement ambitious climate policies to drive the transformation towards low carbon economies depends on a number of specific dimensions of 'feasibility' and 'enabling conditions' which operate across multiple scales, including political, socio-economic, technological and institutional factors.
With respect to social dimensions of feasibility, the emphasis is the extent of climate change awareness in the case study countries and the degree of agitation and mobilisation for strong climate action by citizens and civil societies.