![]() Welcome back to Democracy Now! It’s great to have you with us, Vanessa. Vanessa Nakate now joins us from Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Part manifesto, part memoir, the book presents a new vision for the global climate justice movement that builds a livable future for all and is inclusive of all. It’s called A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis. Now the Ugandan climate justice advocate and founder of the Rise Up Movement just released a new book. Earlier this year, she was on the cover of Time magazine. One of Africa’s loudest voices in the fight against the climate crisis is Vanessa Nakate. Next year’s climate summit is set to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and advocates hope it will draw more attention to a region that’s been long overlooked in conversations about the climate. climate summit, COP26 in Glasgow, as a failure. ![]() This all comes as climate justice advocates from Africa and other communities in the Global South have denounced the recent U.N. Meanwhile, richer nations have failed to fulfill a pledge to grant developing countries $100 billion in annual funding to cope with the impacts of the climate catastrophe. Although richer nations are the world’s biggest polluters, the African Development Bank estimates Africa bears almost half the costs of adapting to the consequences of the climate crisis. So, all indicates that the continuing warming would probably worsen the current 45.6% increase in terms of undernourished people we’ve seen from 2012.ĪMY GOODMAN: The average greenhouse gas emissions generated by a person in Africa are just a fraction of those living in countries like the U.S., Australia and U.K. But importantly, we will have impacts generated by flooding on the infrastructure system for agriculture production, which is the main source of livelihoods and food security in the continent. … We also expect impacts in terms of disease and pests. With increased warming, we expect a reduction in terms of food production. And the predictions we have, the decade of predictions we have for the period 2020 to 2024, they’re indicating an increasing in terms of warming. This is the WMO’s Filipe Lucio.įILIPE LUCIO: That there was an increase in food-insecure and undernourished people by 45.6%. Last year, the continent’s land mass and waters warmed more rapidly than the world average. In October, the World Meteorological Organization warned the effects of the climate crisis in Africa will likely worsen if immediate action isn’t taken. Recently a locust plague hit portions of East Africa. I’m Amy Goodman.Īs we look at the impacts of the climate crisis in the U.S., we now turn to the continent of Africa, a region whose 1.3 billion people are responsible for less than 4% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, yet Africa has already been battered by some of the most dire consequences of climate change, through no fault of its own - rising sea levels, deadly drought, hotter temperatures, water shortages and food insecurity. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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