Country Brief
Sao Tome and Principe (STP) is a small island state consisting of two islands and several islets, located in the Gulf of Guinea. STP is already suffering the impacts of CC. Several trends have been observed: increasing temperature, decreasing rainfall, longer dry season “gravana”, decreasing river flow level, which causes the risk of decreasing groundwater reservoirs, floods, raising sea level and increasing coastal erosion. These trends have negative economic impacts on energy production, fishing activities, forestry and agro forestry, agriculture and livestock. STP is a GHG sinkhole country. However, it is willing to make further efforts to reduce its emissions depending on the financial support, technological resources and support for capacity-building it may receive from the international community.