{"id":40155,"date":"2022-11-11T20:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/eastern-uganda-more-vulnerable-to-climate-disasters-experts"},"modified":"2022-11-11T21:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:19:41","slug":"eastern-uganda-more-vulnerable-to-climate-disasters-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/eastern-uganda-more-vulnerable-to-climate-disasters-experts","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Uganda more vulnerable to climate disasters \u2013 experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Eastern region is worst hit by climate change, environment experts have said.<\/p>\n

Mr Jackson Muhindo, the resilience and climate change coordinator at Oxfam Uganda, said every year, they receive more alerts of floods, landslides and prolonged dry spells from the east than they get from other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

He cited the August floods in Mbale that claimed 29 lives, the drought in Karamoja and Teso, as well as Mt Elgon\u2019s landslides that have become an annual occurrence.<\/p>\n

\u201cBugisu, Teso and Karamoja sub-regions have been hit hardest by disasters. Houses have collapsed and crops have been affected,\u201d he said in an interview on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mr Muhindo said such climate-related disasters have strained government and developmental partners in terms of funds to rebuild and responding to the immediate needs of affected residents.<\/p>\n

He explained that Karamoja has been hit hard by prolonged dry spells that have affected the planting seasons, leading to hunger.<\/p>\n

He said the climate crisis is affecting more developing countries such as Uganda, which are less responsible for the world\u2019s carbon emissions that have caused climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe largest carbon emitters responsible for the current climate crisis should accept responsibility and increase their contributions to adaptation and mitigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Muhindo\u2019s remarks come on the backdrop of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) that is taking place in Egypt where developing countries are tasking developed ones, which are the biggest pollution emitters, to pay the former for the climate change effects.<\/p>\n

Between May and July, famine hit many parts of Teso and Karamoja, leading to deaths before government sent a consignment of food.<\/p>\n

Mr Moses Mbogo, an environmental expert, said environment and natural resources in the eastern region are under threat from both natural and manmade drivers of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are worried that minimum attention to climate change even after the 2021 COP26 – could yield more disaster world over,\u201d Mr Mbogo said.<\/p>\n

The Uganda National Meteorological Authority has warned that the country\u2019s cattle corridor is expected to become water-stressed.<\/p>\n

The Butaleja District senior environment officer, Ms Lamula Were, blamed climate change effects on wetland degradation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn such areas, soil erosion is increasing, landslides, soil infertility, while agrochemical pollution, desertification as well as floods are on the rise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Pallisa District natural resources officer, Mr Muhammad Samuka, said they are strengthening climate change education.<\/p>\n

Mr David Omoding, a farmer from Kaparis Village in Bukedea District, said he has not had any good harvest from his six-acre piece of land in the past five years. He blamed it on continued floods and drought.<\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

At least 1,000 people have been killed by landslides over the past 10 years and out of such deaths, 70 percent were registered in Bududa District, which sits on the slope of Mt Elgon.<\/p>\n

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