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Wallerstein summarises by saying: "The impact of this and subsequent AAPC meetings on political awareness in Africa is difficult to measure, but nonetheless very real. The AAPC brought many African nationalist leaders into contact for the first time with others who had already won independence for their countries or were in active and violent ...
The World Health Organization's report "Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa Plan of Action for the Health Sector 2012–2016" [153] is intended to "provide a comprehensive and evidence-based coordinated response of the health sector to climate change adaptation needs of African countries in order to support the commitments and priorities of ...
The first government-led U.S. Climate Change Science Program synthesis and assessment report supports the growing body of evidence that warming of the atmosphere, especially over the past 50 years, is directly impacted by human activity.
Climate change poses significant challenges for rainfed agriculture and therefore the entire economy. [114] Analysis of weather patterns suggest drought conditions and other extreme weather increased in Sudan during the 20th century. [115] The relationship between climate change, water conflict and the war in Sudan has also been a topic of ...
The IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR), Climate Change 2001, is an assessment of available scientific and socio-economic information on climate change by the IPCC. Statements of the IPCC or information from the TAR were often used as a reference showing a scientific consensus on the subject of global warming .
ACPC was established in 2010 along with a 10 year visionary programme, Climate for Development in Africa, with support from the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the African Development Bank (AfDB). In 2011, Climate Development in Africa started the first phase of operation with ACPC as ...
The final synthesis report was finished in March 2023. It includes a summary for policymakers and was the basis for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai. [1] The first of the three working groups published its report on 9 August 2021, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), climate change has a significant impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. The report states that barriers to the realization of SRHR inhibit progress toward gender equality and may impede climate action. At the same time, the impacts of climate ...