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Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: what needs to be done about it

Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: what needs to be done about it

COMMUNITIES around the world face increasingly severe and frequent impacts from climate change. They are on the “frontlines” of droughts, flooding, desertification and sea level rise. International climate finance is supposed to help. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s wealthiest countries pledged US$50 billion annually to support climate adaptation among those “particularly vulnerable” to climate change. Climate adaptation is the adjustments humans make to reduce exposure to climate risk. KATHERINE BROWNE, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute Eight years later, it is clear that this money is failing to reach vulnerable “frontline communities”, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, Mozambique, Zimbabwe,…
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Saving East Africa’s wildlife from recurring drought

Saving East Africa’s wildlife from recurring drought

OVER the past two decades, the Horn of Africa – specifically Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya – has experienced more intense and frequent droughts. The affected areas in the three countries include vast rangelands, home to millions of people, livestock and wildlife. These areas are classified as arid and semi-arid lands. Author ABDULLAHI ALI, Fellow, Zoological Society of London These drylands also constitute a biodiversity hotspot. They harbour endangered species like the hirola antelope, African wild dog, Somali giraffe and Grevy’s zebra. But these species face an uncertain future due to severe and recurring droughts. I’m a Kenyan scientist and conservationist.…
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From food to floods, Africa ‘not ready’ for climate stress, its scientists say

From food to floods, Africa ‘not ready’ for climate stress, its scientists say

AFRICA'S population is set to nearly double by 2050 - but growth in food production is slowing faster than in any other region of the world as climate change-driven droughts, floods, heat and pests take a toll, African scientists said this week. As rains grow more erratic, the hydropower many African countries depend on to run their economies is becoming unreliable, while coastal communities face worsening erosion, heat, flooding and migration of fish stocks they depend on. But the money African nations need to tackle those threats is largely missing or coming only in the form of loans, while poor governance…
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