This study’s aim was to assess the growing flood risk Sao Tome and Principe (STP) faces due to climate change. It achieved this by carrying out a nationwide risk assessment for riverine and coastal flooding. The study used recently completed high-resolution national flood hazard data for the present climate (2020) and two projected climates (in 2050 and 2080), based on the climate scenario Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP)3-7.0, a medium to high reference scenario resulting from no additional climate policy under the SSP3 socioeconomic development narrative.This flood risk assessment examines the potential impacts and risks to people, buildings, healthcare facilities, the education sector, and tourism under both present and future climate conditions. It shows that flood risk is driven frequent flood events. There is a significant increase of flood risk under future climate conditions.
Authors
- Disclosure Date
- 2024/04/10
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Island Insights: Surging Seas and Increasing Rains - Analyzing Flood Risks in São Tomé and Príncipe, District by District
- Lending Instrument
- Investment Project Financing
- Product Line
- IBRD/IDA
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- 3W-West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project -- P162337
- Sector
- Other Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,Other Public Administration,Other Water Supply, Sanitation and Waste Management,Social Protection
- TF No/Name
- TF0A5273-Cote d'Ivoire - NDCP-SF Budget for Track 1 Grants,TF0A5773-STP NDCP-SF Track 2 Grant,TF0A7130-WACAResIP-GEF - TOGO,TF0A7131-WACA ResIP GEF- Benin,TF0A7132-WACAResIP-GEF- SAO TOME&Principe,TF0B9529-4.3.- Supporting the blue economy transition in São Tomé e PrÃ,TF0A7712-WACA ResIP Scale-Up and Tech/Science Panel,TF0A7713-WACA ResIP Implementation Support for NDF Benin and NDF Senegal,TF0A8175-Additional Financing - West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment,TF0B4024-São Tomé and PrÃncipe Adaptation to Climate Change - Additiona,TF0B4205-São Tomé and PrÃncipe - Additional Financing - West Africa Coa,TF0C0336-Strengthening Mauritania’s Capacity to Implement its NDC - NDC and
- Theme
- Urban Development,Mitigation,Disaster Preparedness,Disaster Risk Reduction,Participation and Civic Engagement,Environmental Health and Pollution Management,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Land Policy and Tenure,Rural Development,Social Development and Protection,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Regional Integration,Private Sector Development,Watershed Management,Coastal Zone Management,Urban Planning,Climate change,Urban and Rural Development,Adaptation,Water Pollution,Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,Social Inclusion,Disaster Risk Management
- Unit Owning
- AFR ENR PM 1 (SAWE1)
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1
