ABSTRACT
One of the major threats to sustainable development is climate change (SDSN 2014). The world climate is still changing fast, posing serious challenges to sustainable livelihood and socio-economic development, particularly in developing countries. Climate change effects are evident in different sectors, such as environment, health, education, food security, energy, and so on (WWF 2009; Andrade et al. 2010) and they are a major risk to poor communities, which lack the financial, institutional and technical capacity to adapt (Munang et al. 2014). Notably, a temperature rise beyond 2°C can have devastating effects on crop production, water access, health and economic development (UNFCCC 2011a). This calls for different players such as governments, communities, institutions and individuals to recognize the urgency of addressing the social, environmental and economic effects of climate change.
