"Vulnerable regions are where the climate rubber meets the road": 2nd report for World Bank. (click here)
06/19/2013 - Crop yields put at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa, extremes of water scarcity and excess in South Asia and floodings of coastal cities in South-East Asia are but a few of the likely impacts of unabated climate change. They are investigated in the second report of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics commissioned by the World Bank: “Turn down the Heat II: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts and the Case for Resilience”. The analysis scrutinizes the state of science on impacts in a 4 degree warming world up to the end of this century. It was presented in London today....
Western Africa and coastal and marine environments (click here)
ABIDJAN, Sep 30 2011 (IPS) - Sea levels on the coasts of Côte d’Ivoire (click here) and other West African countries have
risen again this year, devastating houses and other infrastructure. The
search for effective solutions is lagging behind accelerating coastal
erosion.
For several years now, the third quarter of each year has brought extraordinarily high sea levels in the Gulf of Guinea.
In the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, a number of houses were destroyed and dozens of families made homeless in late August. The challenge is not limited to urban areas: not far from Abidjan, the artisanal fishing community at Grand-Bassam has lost valuable equipment, crippling livelihoods.
The Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, has experienced extensive flooding – by some estimates, 80 percent of the city could be waterlogged by 2020.
Thousands of kilometres south and east along the coast, the city of Cotonou, Benin’s economic centre, is also battling against erosion. A critical article published in Beninois daily Nouvelle Expression in September asked if the government had given up the fight to save the coastline, documenting the submersion of parts of the Roi de Langouste Hotel, east of the city....
06/19/2013 - Crop yields put at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa, extremes of water scarcity and excess in South Asia and floodings of coastal cities in South-East Asia are but a few of the likely impacts of unabated climate change. They are investigated in the second report of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics commissioned by the World Bank: “Turn down the Heat II: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts and the Case for Resilience”. The analysis scrutinizes the state of science on impacts in a 4 degree warming world up to the end of this century. It was presented in London today....
Western Africa and coastal and marine environments (click here)
ABIDJAN, Sep 30 2011 (IPS) - Sea levels on the coasts of Côte d’Ivoire (click here) and other West African countries have
risen again this year, devastating houses and other infrastructure. The
search for effective solutions is lagging behind accelerating coastal
erosion.For several years now, the third quarter of each year has brought extraordinarily high sea levels in the Gulf of Guinea.
In the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan, a number of houses were destroyed and dozens of families made homeless in late August. The challenge is not limited to urban areas: not far from Abidjan, the artisanal fishing community at Grand-Bassam has lost valuable equipment, crippling livelihoods.
The Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, has experienced extensive flooding – by some estimates, 80 percent of the city could be waterlogged by 2020.
Thousands of kilometres south and east along the coast, the city of Cotonou, Benin’s economic centre, is also battling against erosion. A critical article published in Beninois daily Nouvelle Expression in September asked if the government had given up the fight to save the coastline, documenting the submersion of parts of the Roi de Langouste Hotel, east of the city....
