Climate change will make life even harder for the inhabitants of the Comoros island archipelago, one of the poorest countries in the world located off the coast of East Africa. Rainfall patterns will change and be unpredictable. Sea-levels will rise threatening coastal area groundwater with saltwater intrusion.  

By 2090, the dry season could experience 47 per cent less rainfall than today. Extreme weather events are expected to be more frequent and intense, including tropical cyclones, droughts, and flooding. 

70-80 per cent of Comorians are small-scale farmers dependent on rain-fed crops. The increasingly unpredictable weather and erosion of agricultural land means it is more difficult to make a living from growing bananas, traditionally an important crop on the islands.  

From 2018-2021, a total of 1.4 million trees will be planted across the three islands of Comoros by UN Environment, the Government of the Comoros and partners through the Building Climate Resilience through Rehabilitated Watersheds, Forests and Adaptive Livelihoods project supported by the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). 38,000 people out of the island archipelago population of 870,000 will benefit from the project.  

The LDCF was established in 2001, under the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is the only fund dedicated to supporting climate mitigation action in the least developed countries.  

As of 2022, Denmark has supported LDCF with a total of 737.4 mil. DKK since its establishment. 

Starting in December 2018, the partnership will plant 350,000 trees per year across the three islands, while backing these reforestation efforts with capacity building at national and community level.