Nairobi: African rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades due to climate change, a report has just been warned on Tuesday in the midst of the estimated pain for the continent that most does not contribute to global warming but will suffer greatly.
Reports from world meteorological organizations and other institutions, released ahead of the UN Climate Conference in Scotland which began October 31, is a gloomy reminder that 1.3 billion Africans remain “very vulnerable” as the continent warmly warm, and at a faster level.
, from the global average.
But 54 African countries are responsible for less than 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The new report seized the Glacier who shrank Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda as a quick and wide symbol of change to come.
“Their retreat rates are currently higher than the global average.
If this continues, it will cause total de-glaciation in the 2040s,” he said.
Massive transfer, hunger and enhancement of climate shocks such as drought and flooding are in the future, but the lack of climate data in parts of Africa “has a big impact” at the disaster warning for millions of people, said Secretary General of WMO Petteria Talas at launch Tuesday.
Estimated economic effects of climate change vary in all African continents, but “in sub-Saharan Africa, climate change can further reduce gross domestic product by 3 percent by 2050,” Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko with the African Union Commission wrote in the report.
“Not only physical conditions are getting worse, but also the number of people affected increases.” By 2030, up to 118 million very poor people, or those who live with less than $ 1.90 a day, “will be exposed to drought, flooding, and extreme heat in Africa if the steps of the response are adequate not placed,” Sacko added .
Already, the United Nations has warned that the state of the Indian Samudra Island in Madagascar is the one where “conditions such as hunger have been driven by climate change.” Apart from the threat in front of the African continent, the voices of Africans are less represented than richer areas of global climate meetings and among crucial intergovernmental panel writers in the scientific assessment of climate change.
African participation in the IPCC report has been “very low,” according to the future climate for Africa, a multi-state research program.
The cost in front is very large.
“Overall, Africa will need an investment of more than $ 3 trillion in mitigation and adaptation by 2030 to implement it (national climate plan), which requires significant entry flow, can be accessed and predictable with conditional finance,” said WMO Talas.
“The cost of adapting to climate change in Africa will rise to $ 50 billion per year in 2050, even assuming international efforts to maintain global warming under 2 degrees Celsius.”