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• Cabo Verde's goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2026 corresponds to a strategic vision for development that is entirely coincident with the vision of the United Nations Agenda 2030. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Another formation near the Cabo Verde Islands is experiencing disorganized storms that could interact with a tropical wave off Africa's coast. Mansfield Energy
• The recent signing of a headquarters agreement by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Government of Cabo Verde, on establishing a Multinational Maritime Coordination Centre, will complete the operationalization of the Yaounde Architecture in the ECOWAS domain. ReliefWeb
• A tropical wave emerging from the coast of Africa on Sunday is expected to merge later this week with another tropical disturbance (Invest 97 L) located just west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Yale Climate Connections
• The Cabo Verde ICT hub will launch a €1 million seed fund to invest in around 20 innovative Cabo Verde startups. The Fintech Times
• The support to Cabo Verde from the SCCF will help the residents of Santiago, the largest island and major agricultural hub of the West African archipelago nation, to shore up natural defences against climate effects while increasing food security. Global Environment Facility
• In Cabo Verde, FAO will support climate change adaptation and increased food security through agro-ecological solutions, improved governance, and access to climate financing. FAO
• Conservation and development financing through blue bonds and debt swaps provide opportunities for co-benefits with climate resilience and transformative development efforts as seen in most Small Island States like Cabo Verde and Seychelles. Our Africa, Our Thoughts
• The Ocean Race and partners - including the Government of Cabo Verde and US-based Earth Law Center - are working to give the ocean a voice and gathering global support for the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights by 2030. The Ocean Race 2022-23
• Cabo Verde is on the road to eradicating extreme poverty by 2026 - promoting the values of tolerance, diversity, gender parity, and multiculturalism. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• AccuWeather and National Weather Service meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic south of the Cabo Verde Islands that could morph into a tropical storm by late next week. USA Today
• Cabo Verde's economy has been badly impacted by the compounding effects of climate extremes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the disruption to food supply chains due to unfolding conflict in Ukraine which has driven up the prices of food, fuel and fertilizer. Zawya
• A tropical wave located a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands off the coast of Africa is predicted to move west to west-northwest at 15-20 mph over the next five days. Yale Climate Connections
• The next Cabo Verde wave, moving off the west coast of Africa on Sunday, likely will be the next system of concern in the Atlantic. Yale Climate Connections
• Other small islands such as Easter Island (Chile), Pitcairn Islands (UK), Bermuda, and Cabo Verde may actually witness increases in catch potential under certain climate scenarios. IPCC
• In Africa alone, 19 countries, including Seychelles, Cabo Verde, and South Africa (Africa's mature or better-off economies according to the World Bank), are to start austerity measures once the pandemic subsides or by 2023. Peoples Dispatch
• The EU will next month launch a new Atlantic Ocean science collaboration with Argentina, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Canada, Morocco, South Africa and the United States. Research Professional News
• The allocation of ODA to LMICs such as Cabo Verde could have a higher focus on reducing economic and environmental vulnerabilities, which are disproportionally large in SIDS. OECD
• The current COVID-19 crisis, which is severely affecting Cabo Verde's heavily tourism-dependent economy, has led to the provision of exceptional development assistance and to discussions on new global financing mechanisms that hold the potential to benefit Cabo Verde in important ways. OECD
• Cabo Verde has become a member of the Global Ocean Alliance and its 30 by 30 Initiative - a coalition of 40 countries that aim to conserve, by 2030, 30% of the ocean through the establishment of marine protected areas where no destructive or extractive activities can take place. OECD
• Cabo Verde has the ambition to become independent from imports of fossil fuels to meet its energy demand as formulated in the Master Plan for the Energy Sector 2018-2030, which sets out to reach a 50% penetration rate of renewable energy by 2030. OECD
• Exceptional COVID-19 development assistance and new global financing mechanisms could help a more sustainable recovery in Cabo Verde. OECD
• The number facing hunger in 2022 will reach about 180 million in 41 of the countries surveyed last year, plus Cabo Verde. Time

Last updated: 26 July 2025