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Les mauvaises nouvelles concernant le climat sont omniprésentes. L’Afrique est particulièrement touchée par le changement climatique et les phénomènes météorologiques extrêmes, qui ont un impact sur la vie et les moyens de subsistance de ses habitants. Nous vivons dans un monde qui se réchauffe à un rythme sans précédent depuis le début des relevés. Pourtant, les gouvernements tardent à agir.

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.

As we mark 100 days until the COP28 UN climate summit, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis has never been more palpable. Global failures to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts continue to wreak havoc on the planet, and we’re seeing this in a range of ways. Unprecedented extreme weather events have occurred with frightening regularity in 2023. In March, over 500 people lost their lives when Cyclone Freddy struck Malawi. Last month, flooding in the Philippines caused by Typhoons Doksuri and Khanun displaced more than 300,000 people, and the recent wildfires that ravaged Hawaii – in part exacerbated by climate change – continue to make for distressing headlines. This list is likely to become even longer by the end of the year, when COP28 gets underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).