For Africa, the most critical climate change issue is to obtain sufficient financial support to manage adaptation and mitigation processes successfully, attend to development needs and continue to develop infrastructure, ...

Tout le monde s’accorde à penser que les changements climatiques constituent une question critique pour l’Afrique et en fait le plus grand problème, avec celui de la pauvreté, qui se pose au 21e siècle. Les changements ...

The recognition that people influence climate, and that our future climate depends upon our choices on global development paths, have resulted in a number of proposed global mitigation strategies. However, science also ...

Our natural environment is in crisis globally and in Africa. Ecosystems (both terrestrial and aquatic) and biodiversity are all being degraded rapidly under the present global economic system which treats the environment ...

Africa’s trade constitutes about three per cent of global trade. Exports are largely agricultural and unprocessed commodities from particularly resource-rich countries. Agriculture, mining and oil constitute more than 80 ...

Weak infrastructure is a critical bottleneck in Africa’s development after decades of under-investment. Sound infrastructure would contribute significantly to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Changes ...

Africa’s vulnerability arises from a combination of many factors, including extreme poverty, rising population, frequent natural disasters such as droughts and floods, and agricultural systems (crop and livestock production) ...

There is strong evidence from the scientific community that climate change will have a disproportionately major effect on socio-economic development in Africa. The average cost of climate change to African economies could ...

There is general agreement that Africa’s geographical location and low adaptive capacity make it very vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The continent has a relatively warm climate, poor soils and high variability ...

Les changements climatiques soulèvent de graves problèmes pour l’agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique. Ils ont un impact direct sur la production alimentaire en modifiant les conditions agroécologiques et des ...