Forecast for Africa: drought, floods and misery

The UN climate change report released this week spells out some dire scenarios, writes Victor Ongoma

15 August 2021 - 00:00 By Victor Ongoma

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a major new report, pulling together evidence from a wide range of current and ancient climate observations, that reflects the most up-to-date understanding of climate change yet. It is crucial that we have a good understanding of the findings as they give an indication of what our future could look like...

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