What is it about?
This article concerns the multiple impacts on Africa of climate change, and the policies that Africa should support. Developed countries should assist policies of mitigation and adaptation through technology transfer and financial assistance.
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Why is it important?
The extreme weather events, including droughts and heat-waves, make policies of climate mitigation and adaptation both topical and urgent.
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I became interested in environmental ethics through a Kenyan philosopher, the late Henry Odera Uruka, and later participated in conferences that he organised in Nairobi during the 1990s, prior to his premature death. Visits to Africa such as these gave me a lifelong love of Africa, its peoples and its landscapes. Since Africa is disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, I am concerned that these impacts be mitigated, not least by Afrcans.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS ROBIN ATTFIELD
Cardiff University
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This page is a summary of: Africa and Climate Change, Utafiti, March 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/26836408-14010016.
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