Africa-Press – Angola. The African Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Blue Economy, Josefa Sacko, regretted, Thursday (21), that the African continent is the most vulnerable to climate change, despite contributing with only 4 percent of global emissions. of greenhouse gases.
The Angolan diplomat was speaking, in Addis Ababa, at the 1079th meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union. On the occasion, she stressed that the broad projections of climate change “paint a disturbing picture of increasingly scarce water, collapsing agricultural yields, encroachment of the desert and damaged coastal infrastructure”.
Josefa Sacko said that this situation “threatens to undermine the carrying capacity” of much of Africa, causing destabilizing population movements and increasing tensions over ever-decreasing strategic resources. tripled, storms quadrupled and floods increased tenfold.
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