Water and environmental change in Africa

Hello and welcome to my blog.  Over the next few months, I will be writing a series of blogs assessing the response of Africa to anthropogenic climate change. I will be using case studies to understand some impacts.  By now, I would hope I don't have to introduce climate change. Anthropogenic warming of the planet has caused the ongoing increase of the global average temperature. As shown in Figure 1, the average temperature has increased nearly 1.0°C in less than 40 years. In turn, this is affecting the global climate system. There is also a disparity in who is releasing these emissions, as shown in Figure 2, with less than 5% of historical global CO2 emissions coming from Africa. Whilst this warming has been disproportionately caused by the world's wealthiest nations, the effects will be felt hardest by the poorest. In 2020, The UN Climate Change and World Meterological Society co-published a study stating: " climate change is having a growing impact on the African cont...