How climate change affects Africa

The continent of Africa is more than large enough to hold three of the US, including Hawaii and Alaska. With its 54 countries, it is behind only Asia in area and population. Although people living in Africa have contributed little to the problem, in any scenario of more than 1.5°C warming, their continent is the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Yet these effects remain severely understated in Western English-language reports. Google Africa climate change or Africa climate action and almost every link will be to an institution (UN, WMO, IMF, Brookings, USAID, IPCC, etc.) rather than a newspaper or magazine article. This applies to articles on weather and climate, humanitarian crises and stories about Africans leading the way in climate solutions. (SUEELLEN CAMPBELL)

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