Spotlight on African Women In Science Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change: Dr N`Datchoh Evelyne Toure

One of only three women climate change science 2019 Fellows of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Dr Touré uses the power of mathematics to look at the impact of climate change.

Dr Toure’s research – Flood Risk Reduction under Paris Agreement (FLORR-PA) – provides valuable information about projected flood occurrences under global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius, in three West African cities of Abidjan, Dakar and Ouagadougou. Her findings now offer pathways of climate resilience including solutions on adequate homegrown disaster risk responses and mitigation measures to flooding in West African cities.

Her project is mapping out how the different climatic zones in Ivory Coast will respond to a global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C and determining what impacts these changes may have on temperature patterns and precipitation extremes. Dr Touré’s research findings will provide valuable information to help develop strategies that will reduce the impact of climate change on agriculture, especially on cocoa production, an important part of the economy in Ivory Coast, according to this report.