Africa makes special circumstances proposal at UN climate change conference | IOL News

MADRID - The Negotiating Group for Africa has put forward a proposal for acknowledgment of the continent’s special circumstances and needs in the United Nations climate change conference currently under way in Madrid, Spain.

The proposal relates to the continent’s increasingly high risk to climate change, due to extreme weather events, and the increasing economic burdens as nations considered high risk borrow at high rates to meet their development agenda affected by climate change. Research by the African Adaptation Initiative indicated that seven out of ten African nations are now at high risk of debt distress following debt build-up from disasters caused by global warming.

The NGA said greenhouse gas emissions are putting the world on a path toward unacceptable global warming, with serious implications for development prospects in Africa. In 2019, an analysis from Save the Children organisation indicated that over 1200 people in Mozambique, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, and Malawi have died from cyclones, floods, and landslides.

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