This book does not attempt to provide profound solutions to all the challenges posed by climate change in Africa. Rather, it aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion by investigating certain aspects of climate change and the manner in which these manifest themselves in a selection of African countries. In Chapter 1, Mwebaza investigates the impact of climate change on East Africa - one of the areas to be worst hit by climate Change in Africa. The worst impacts of climate change in this area are projected to be at principally two levels; the human impact and environmental or biodiversity impact. In Chapter 2, Busingye provides an enlightening perspective on the relationship between gender roles, land degradation and climate change in Uganda. The author contends that this relationship is one of cause-and-effect and that a proper understanding of this relationship would enable the creation of mechanisms to address challenges posed by climate change.Part 2 of the monograph focuses on approaches to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change in certain African countries. In Chapter 3,Mwiturubani reflects on the role of informal institutions in enhancing coping mechanisms to deal with the impacts of climate change in the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB). The author states that an IPCC analysis of the impacts of climate change suggests that in sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of the population depends on rain-fed agriculture, economic activities are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change. Africa’s major economic sectors are vulnerable to the current climate sensitivity. Th s vulnerability is aggravated by existing developmental challenges such as endemic poverty, complex governance and institutional dimensions; limited access to capital, including markets, infrastructure and technology; ecosystem degradation; and complex disasters and conflicts. It is therefore pertinent to engage in vigorous multi-disciplinary approaches to improve the impact of climate change on the African continent. In response to the latter, Law, and more specifically, environmental law, plays an important role in this respect, particularly as legal mechanisms since they are able to shape the people’s behaviour with respect to their interaction with the environment. In addressing these challenges, this monograph covers the general overview of climate change issues in some African countries; approaches to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change in certain African countries and climate change adaptation. This monograph examines the legal perspective relevant to the effects of climate change, with a specific focus on the remedies that can be used to enforce policy decisions that need to made. Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability, a situation aggravated by the interaction of ‘multiple stresses’, occurring at various levels, and low adaptive capacity ... Africa’s major economic sectors are vulnerable to current climate sensitivity, with huge economic impacts, and this vulnerability is exacerbated by existing developmental challenges such as endemic poverty, complex governance and institutional dimensions; limited access to capital, including markets, infrastructure and technology; ecosystem degradation; and complex disasters and conflicts. These in turn have contributed to Africa’s weak adaptive capacity, increasing the continent’s vulnerability to projected climate change.