Climate change has important and definite consequences for the development of Africa and the complex and evolving challenges for politicians and the people of Africa. Addressing climate change is critical to the program for the development of the continent. It has been shown that the communities and the poorest countries earliest and the most global warming due to the weaker strength and greater confidence in sensitive sectors such as agriculture suffer climate.
In the last decade, Africa has experienced more or less high economic growth in General. Change the effects of climate change on the sustainability of the growth or development of translation is enormous. The impact on the development and welfare of society and ecosystems are the primary
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This situation is still the reality of energy insecurity in Africa on the increased demand due to growing population and the decline of the traditional fossil fuels.
Effects of climate change
Looking at the negative impacts of climate change on economic growth and sustainable development in Africa, which has limited the ability of African countries to deal with climate change with a focus on the development of the continent. Africa is diverse: the 53 countries have a different topology, resources, size, population and cultures and the differences of experience in development and performance. Interestingly, all African countries are facing these global climate changes that threaten their efforts from development and perspective.
The poor are particularly affected because of their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. The majority of the poor in Africa depends on natural resources and agriculture for their self-sufficiency and are less than capable of coping with the crisis of drought induced by the climate, floods, erosion and other natural
Western Eurocentric stereotypes erroneously portray traditional African civilization and culture as exotic, different, and primitive. For many westerners, Africa is stereotyped as a continent with tribes and villages with primitive social structures and hierarchies. African countries contain various cultures, languages, and religions. African’s experienced denial of religious and cultural identity after gaining independence from European countries because European’s imposed western ideologies upon a continent with numerous diversities.
Chapter 8 is about Sub-Saharan Africa. It is about how Europeans came to Africa and settled their and mostly ruled. It is about the many parts of Africa as a whole and it 's diversity. How these different parts of Africa get food and water and their other basic needs(Findley & Rothney,2011). It is about how Imperialism and how the African people took being under an Imperialistic rule.
From 1500 to 1750, there were changes and continuities on the ways Sub-Saharan Africa participated in interregional trade. The major turning point of Sub-Saharan Africa’s participation is the start the slave trade in West Africa. This event impacted the New World, Europe and SE Asia because Europe profited from the exploitation of Africans to the New World, Southeast Asia experienced a decline in population because of the start of the slave trade between Southern Africa and Indonesia, and the New World became more profitable as plantations where slaves worked grew. The overall continuity of Sub-Saharan Africa’s participation in trade is the European dominance in the region because of the Age of Exploration led by the Portuguese and Spanish.
People may know about climate change and the drastic changes it is having on the environment, but what they may not be aware of is that another degree increase in the world’s average temperature will cause even bigger problems for people all over. Climate change is long term shifts in temperature and patterns in the weather. Greenhouse gasses, gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere causing it to warm up are at an all-time high due to humans and the amount of fossil fuels we use. The most crucial result of climate change is global health, but animal endangerment and the rise in sea levels are also very important effects.
It is the goal of the United Nations to ensure that the world’s population has access to energy that is reliable, sustainable, affordable and modern by 2030. Will we know the goal has been accomplished? There are five targets set that need to be reached to consider the goal accomplished. The third deals with something concrete: doubling the world’s energy efficiency. The other four are more abstract.
The book “The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change” written by Tim Flanner pertains to predicting the global warming consequence on earth and species. In chapter 9, the unraveling world, the author talks about global warming and how it can have a long-lasting and far-reaching impact on our lives. He points out the substantial and rapid change of the climate and its connection with the effects of El Nino and La Nina are also uncovered. Climate change can be a major contributor as to where species live and how they interact. The changes can also be observed by the changing migration patterns of these species.
A new study, co-led by Marshal Burke, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, shows that climate change will eventually lead to drop in economy of almost every country. Even though Northern countries like Canada associate warmer temperatures with rapid economic growth but after a certain period of time, the growth ultimately declines. The major reason for climate change (global warming) is emission of CO2 into the atmosphere which is mainly caused by burning of fossil fuels. Coal and Petroleum are the fossil fuels used to generate energy.
IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ON THE ENVIRONMENT SLINDILE.C MAZIBUKO 215011983 UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL WESTVILLE CAMPUS DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA ABSTRACT One of the biggest problems facing the world today is global warming. It is evident that there is climate change around the world. In recent years, we have so many unusual hurricanes, typhoons, floods, droughts and earthquakes. Plants and animals that lived in the cold climates are now disappearing.
Britain’s economy may bear the brunt of the fallout from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, but another region of the world namely Africa according to analyst is set to be an unexpected victim of the vote. This assignment will discuss the impact of Britain (Brexit ) leaving the European union impact on Africa . It will discuss the both the positive and the negative impacts of the outcome of the referendum because there are different views on what the exit will have on Africa in particular and this is what this assignment aims to
(Christensen et al., 2007 cited in UNFCCC, 2007) affirms that the entire African continent is likely to experience warming that is higher than the global annual average. Climate records shows that all of the ten warmest years in the global temperature records up to 2011 have occurred since 1997, with 2005 and 2010 being the warmest two years in more than a century of global records (AMS, 2012). (Cooper et al. 2008:25) noted that whilst the exact nature and extent of the impacts of climate change on temperature and rainfall distribution patterns remain uncertain, it is the poor and vulnerable who will be the most prone to climate change especially in the rural areas, hence adaptation to climate change is an inevitable choice for human
Climate change is the most rising issue of the modern world that is threatening our planet from the last few decades. In the simplest definition, the term climate change refers to the rising of the planet’s temperature, particularly an increase in the average atmospheric temperature. It should be noted that in the last few decades, many scientists and ecologists has discovered the Earth temperature is increasing at an alarming rate and has affected the planet in numerous of way. The constant change in the climate due to various causes is threatening the preservation of the Earth and its human life. It should be noted that the climate change is linked with several of the human activities that are further directed towards the global warming.
“Pastoralist societies in East Africa face more demands on their way of life than at any previous time. Population growth, loss of herding lands to farmers, ranchers, game parks, and urban growth, increased commoditization of the livestock economy, out-migration by poor pastoralists, and dislocations brought about by severe drought, famine, and civil wars are increasing throughout the region.” (Fratkin 2001) Not only do other people cause issues, but the main problem that they go through is seasons of drought that severely affect climate change and their empty stomachs and pockets directly. They solely rely on their livestock and drought is one of the greatest causes of livestock mortality in Kenya.
Researches show that the average temperature of the planet has been changed during the last decades, as a result, many problems join with it and climate change is considered as the biggest problem around the world. Climate change is one of the results of global warming and it has so many negative disadvantage impacts on earth, including; increasing the events of natural
Global climate change constitutes arguably the single most important threat to mankind. From the onset of the industrial revolution, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2) have increasingly built up in the atmosphere, causing the climate to warm up slowly but steadily (IPCC, 2014). NASA predicts that 2016 will mark the hottest year on record. The effects of global warming are ubiquitous: Greenland’s glacier and the Arctic ice cap are melting, ocean levels are rising, occurrences of extreme weather are increasing, including hurricanes and areas of either intense drought or flooding. Collectively, these changes and their direct consequences are an imminent danger and they directly affect other urgent issues humanity is
The Impacts of Climate Change on Species This paper seeks to research the study of climate change and its effects on biodiversity. This will be done by first understanding what climate change is and what the different effects are. Once this is understood, it will be easier to apply this knowledge to the study of biodiversity and how species are affected. Real life examples of different species that are affected will be mentioned and explained. Climate change is a reoccurring issue in our world that has been observed and studied extensively.