African Climes

 Adaptation to climate change will to a very large extent involve water. The impacts of climate change are already being felt in the human and natural world and this will continue for the foreseeable future. Water will be the single most important factor involved in adaptation because of three reasons. One is because of how biologically important it is in the processes of life, two is its value in all economic sectors. Water is an invaluable component of both the natural and human world. The third reason is because water is affected by climate change. Rising temperatures occasioned by increasing amounts of atmospheric greenhouse gases interfere with the hydrological cycle at both the local and global levels. Accordingly higher temperatures are already causing increased glacier and ice melt and interrupting the processes of the cryosphere (the frozen parts of the Earth). Ice sheets both in polar and mountainous regions are melting at higher and faster rates. This melt is what gi...

  The 27 th conference of parties - the annual international climate summit - was concluded in Egypt on the 18 th of November 2022. These talks culminated in the Sharm-el-Sheikh Implementation Plan, which is the official outcome of the COP. Quite a number of decisions concerning different areas of climate change were taken at the meet, given that each day at the COP had a theme. Let’s look at what happened. The cover decision starts by upholding all decisions arrived at during previous conferences and further reaffirms the guiding principles of the convention and all climate change agreements under it, inclusive of the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol. It affirms that all have the right to a clean healthy and sustainable environment, the right to health, the right to development and also mentions climate justice. To begin, mitigation received quite some attention. The document recognized that we need “rapid, deep and sustained cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 43% by ...