Namibia: Building Climate Change Resilience

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Namibia: Building Climate Change Resilience

[Namibian] A FIVE-YEAR project of the Benguela Current Convention (BCC) on enhancing climate change resilience in the Benguela current fisheries system has so far recorded a number of achievements.

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