Climate change and security in Africa : Changements climatiques et sécurité en Afrique : une étude réalisée pour le Forum des ministres des Affaires étrangères d'Afrique du Nord en 2009

The security threat posed by climate increasingly unpredictable weather patterns around the change has caught the world’s political imagination, world may lead to higher prices for food and greater food generating a perceptible shift in the way that a growing insecurity, and increase the stakes for control over number of decision-makers in the North and the South productive agricultural land. [...] Finally, the cumulative impact of and manage the impacts of climate change illustrates, in all these challenges on the prevalence of poverty and the the starkest manner possible, our global interdependence. [...] The overall aim of the report is to assess, as of countries and communities to adapt to those changes objectively as possible, the existing evidence on the (institutional capacity); and third, how individuals, ‘security threat’ of climate change in Africa, and to communities and governments react to the challenges determine which sectors and regions are most likely to that arise (responsiveness). [...] The African Union, in a January 2007 Second, entirely new causal relationships between decision, expressed grave concern about the vulnerability environmental conditions and the emergence of conflict of Africa’s “socio-economic and productive systems to may appear as a result of climate change in the form of climate change and variability and to the continent’s low sea-level rise, flooding disaste [...] Heavy rainfall events The continent’s climate is made up of seven distinct have increased for many of the countries in the region zones.5 Widely different ecosystems from the Sahara to (Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia), the rainforests of central Africa to the (disappearing) along with changes in seasonality and weather extremes snows of Kilimanjaro mean that the impact of climate (