2023-12-13 23:26:06
No less than 407 million people have been affected by humanitarian disasters due to climate change in Africa between 2020 and 2022, according to a report by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in a new study to be published on December 18 in Abuja, Nigeria.
« Climate-induced catastrophic events have led to serious humanitarian crises in Africa. Between 2000 and 2022, a total of 407.5 million people in Africa were affected by natural disasters » , according to this report.
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“During this period,” adds this study, “4.2 million people found themselves homeless, 53,610 people died and 52,205 were injured » .
These data are contained in this ECA report entitled “ Strengthening Africa’s resilience to global economic shocks » , a study highlighting the correlation between climate shocks and GDP, reports APS.
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“An increase in temperature beyond a threshold of 0.7 degrees centigrade results in a reduction in real GDP growth. With a temperature change of 1.8 degrees centigrade, which is expected to be the case by 2030, if current trends persist we might expect a 2 percentage point decline in real GDP growth “, we read in the report.
The preliminary results of the said report also show that the frequency of natural disasters directly leads to an increase in public debt levels, so that “ a one-unit increase in natural disasters might lead to a 0.25 percentage point increase in the ratio of net public debt to GDP.”
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The ECA report also provides guidance on how African countries should integrate climate change into the design and implementation of their long-term growth strategies.
It notably recommends “the adoption of a green industrial policy” in the design and implementation of national development strategies, just as it recommends “ the issuance of green and blue bonds which can exclusively direct financing towards projects with climate and environmental outcomes aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
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