The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon – experiences of running a hackathon and highlights of results

The Leeds Africa Climate Hackathon aimed to generate user-relevant narratives of possible future climate in East and West relevant hydroelectric power generation agriculture respectively. Here we discuss how the virtual hackathon was organised, present results, examine lessons learned from running such a hackathon. We found African will need store more water during heavier rain events cope with longer drought periods future. Agriculture Ghana face much greater possibility severe droughts by mid-century especially if 1.5 degC global warming targets are not met.