"In sub-Saharan Africa, climate change could further lower gross domestic product by up to three percent by 2050."Climate change will expose up to 118 million extremely poor Africans to drought, floods and extreme heat by 2030 if it is not addressed urgently. It could cut gross domestic product by up to three percent by 2050. And East Africa’s iconic mountain glaciers are disappearing.
Unpacking the implications of these developments for the people of the continent, Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture with the African Union Commission, said weather and climate changes were disrupting lives and economies. Mr Taalas added that East Africa’s glaciers are shrinking rapidly and are expected to melt entirely “in the near future.” This, he said, “signals the threat of imminent and irreversible change to the Earth system.”
“The rates of sea-level rise along the tropical and South Atlantic coasts and Indian Ocean coast are higher than the global mean rate, at approximately 3.6mm per year and 4.1mm per year, respectively.”
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