RT null T1 Forestry in The Gambia: A Climate Adaptation Case Study A1 United Nations Environment Programme, K1 forestry K1 Gambia K1 climate change adaptation YR 2022 FD 2022-01 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/37784 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/37784 NO The UN Environment Programme is helping the government of Gambia to adapt to climate change with a major project, titled Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in The Gambia: developing a climate-resilient, natural resource-based economy. Funded by the Green Climate Fund, the project aims to restore 12,788 hectares of degraded forests, savanna, and mangroves, and 3,000 hectares of farmland to increase the resilience of rural villages to storm surges and floods – a practice known as ‘ecosystem-based adaptation.’ NO https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/what-we-do/climate-adaptation/ecosystem-based-adaptation DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 22, 2026