Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people at risk of displacement as a result of coastal flooding and erosion in Ghana.

Ghana is vulnerable to coastal erosion, and industrial activity and climate change have contributed to this risk. This erosion can displace communities and destroy infrastructure. We are using UK development assistance to work with the city of Sekondi-Takoradi (which is suffering from increased urban flooding, sea level rise, and coastal erosion) to better understand these climate risks and gather data on the impact, including displacement. Through this project we will work with the local authorities and communities to support interventions to address climate change, including infrastructure plans to tackle these hazards.

In her previous role as UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP visited Ghana earlier this year, where she chaired a ministerial roundtable on building resilience to climate impacts and welcomed Ghana to the Adaptation Action Coalition.