Climate change: Africa at a glance

Awuor Alai
THE world is undergoing the literal definition of the phenomenon that is climate change: A long-term shift in weather patterns and temperatures. While climate change can be occasioned by perfectly natural events, human activities resulting from urbanisation have been catalysing this process with rather acute results.

The climate vulnerability index of 2015 indicated that the top 10 most at-risk countries were all in Africa.

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