GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Keywords: Africa, climate, Paris Conference, Great Green Wall An inter-institute round table on "Global climate change: implications for the Socio-economic development of African countries"was held at the Center for Sociological and Political Studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The following topics were suggested for discussion: - agricultural production and food security; - water scarcity and threats to water security; - rising sea levels and increasing frequency of climate disasters; - increasing the power of tropical hurricanes, ecosystems and biodiversity; - destruction of historically established traditional systems of socio-economic and cultural environment and human behavioral patterns; - human health; - international cooperation in addressing climate change. V. I. Gusarov, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, who chaired the discussion, opened the session with an introductory statement "The UN Climate Conference and the place of African countries in its documents". In particular, he noted that the Paris Climate Change conference was held from November 30 to December 12, 2015. It was the 21st conference held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 11th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. The goal of the conference is to sign an agreement to support an increase in the average global temperature below 2°C applicable to all countries. One of the main achievements of the conference: for the first time, all UN members - 193 countries-took part in it. Commitments to reduce emissions were developed independently by participants, taking into account existing conditions and future prospects. Instead of the previously agreed 2°C, the task was set to prevent the temperature from rising above 1.5°C1. V. I. Gusarov emphasized that much attention was paid to African issues, in particular, projects in the field of environmental rehabilitation, as well as sustainable agricultural development. The second day of the ... Read more
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