Sentences with phrase «african climate risks»

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He said: «African leaders have repeatedly stated that they want more than a climate risk insurance scheme.

Governments in the developing world are also now pooling their resources into sovereign insurance funds that make payouts for climate adaptation programs, said Fatima Kassam of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Co., a specialized agency of the African Union.

India and African nations are far more at risk, from climate change, than are the United States, Canada, and France; China is somewhere in the middle.

3) To my mind, the world's industrialized and fast - industrializing countries have an ethical and practical obligation to boost African capacity to track climate - related risks and foster practices (in agriculture, particularly) that can boost resilience to climate extremes, whatever mix of forces — human or otherwise — are behind them.

The south American and African climates are at risk solely because of the economic disposals of western countries.

Noting that politics and the lack of governance are a prime driver of the famine, he also asserts that over-reliance on the intergovernmental climate panel's 2007 African analysis (described above) lulled some agencies into discounting drought risks in East Africa even as observations showed a drying trend in spring.

We are a network of South Africans calling for divestment from fossil fuels — and restorative reinvestment in sustainable energy — to stigmatise fossil fuel use, accelerate sustainable system change, help slow climate change, reduce the financial risks of fossil fuel investments, and so help secure our human rights and common future.

These companies are willing to take risks operating in politically unstable areas to dig out potentially lucrative resources under the African soil, despite analysts saying the activities are in direct conflict with global climate targets.

Recent multi model estimates based on different CMIP3 climate scenarios and different dynamic global vegetation models predict a moderate risk of tropical forest reduction in South America and even lower risk for African and Asian tropical forests (see also Section 12.5.5.6)(Gumpenberger et al., 2010; Huntingford et al., 2013).»

As temperatures rise, the risks increase that vulnerable elements of the climate system — the polar ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon, and others — will cross critical thresholds, or tipping points.