  As climate change issues become more pressing, their impact in Africa calls
for urgent, innovative solutions tailored to the continent's unique challenges.
While Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a critical and valuable tool for
climate change adaptation and mitigation, its effectiveness and potential are
contingent upon overcoming significant challenges such as data scarcity,
infrastructure gaps, and limited local AI development. This position paper
explores the role of AI in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Africa.
It advocates for a collaborative approach to build capacity, develop
open-source data repositories, and create context-aware, robust AI-driven
climate solutions that are culturally and contextually relevant.
