Cyclones have been registered in Mozambique since at least the 1980s and over the past ten years they have occurred with greater intensity and frequency and at least once a year. In each cyclone cycle – which occurs between November and April – the Government shows that it is incapable of anticipating and responding although it possesses initiatives to mitigate the effects of extreme climatic events. Public and private infrastructures are damaged or totally destroyed and reconstruction becomes an interminable cycle of waste of resources. The pattern is repeated every year.
Although there is a history of cyclones and alerts, what is missing is the construction of infrastructures with nature-based solutions (NbS) that are resilient to extreme climatic events. Hence, to face the vicious cycle of the destruction of infrastructures, it is proposed that resilient infrastructures be built with NbS, which consists of integrating natural and ecological processes into the design and construction of infrastructures, with the aim of increasing their capacity to resist and adapt to the impacts of climate change, such as tropical cyclones and storms. As long as these elements are not present, the country will remain in a vicious cycle of loss of life and infrastructures.
