News Headline

Climate Change Amplifies Instability in Africa

Source
Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Publication Date
2021-04-22

Climate change is straining livelihoods across broad swaths of Africa, intensifying instability in multifaceted ways. The continent’s ability to adapt to and mitigate these effects will have global repercussions. Climate change is inherently unfair. It tends to most affect the poorest countries that have the lowest carbon emissions. By adding pressure to already strained environmental and economic systems, climate change exacerbates resource competition, intercommunal grievances, state fragility, and other vulnerabilities. Countries in conflict, in turn, are less able to focus on conservation and long-term adaptation.

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https://africacenter.org/spotlight/climate-change-amplifies-instability-in-africa/