Global Challenges, Regional Interventions: Exploring the Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of the African Union and the European Union

Climate changeClimate change, AU adaptation strategies is one of humanity's most pressing problems in the twenty-first century. MitigationMitigation, adaption initiatives and adaptation plansAdaptation plans, supranational jurisprudence have been developed at the global, regional, and national levels to address the threats posed by climate change. Both the African Union and the European Union are working hard at the regional level to ensure that the effects of climate changeEuropean Commission, effects of climate change on their respective regions are as minimal as possible. Thus, this study explored the impact climate change has had on the livelihoods of the Africans and the Europeans. Nevertheless, the focus of the study is a comparative analysis of the climate adaptation strategiesAdaption strategies, climate change of the African Union and the European Union with the intent of discovering their regularities, similarities, and differences. The study was conducted using secondary dataMethodology, secondary data and datasets from Afrobarometer, Eurostat, and Statista, and it is methodically guided by a research question, viz., what makes the climate adaptation strategies of the African Union different from those of the European Union such that a comparison is considered necessary? The datasets from Afrobarometer were descriptively analysed using Microsoft Excel and the followings are some of the findings: climate change affects all humans, in both developed and developing countries; despite Europe emitting more greenhouse gases than Africa, African Union member-states are more vulnerable to climate change; and that the African UnionAfrican Union, European Union and the European Union approach climate adaptation differently, but with some commonalities. Moreover, the study posits that the strategic partnershipThe Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, climate change between AfricaAfrica, European Union and the European Union is a prime example of the significance of collaborative efforts in combating the climate change issue.