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Cost of climate change adaptation could destabilise African countries, UN warns
2013-11-20 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: African countries are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and could struggle to feed and defend their people as temperatures rise, according to a major UN report. The cost of developing drought-resistant crops, providing early-warning systems for floods, droughts and fires, and building seawalls, dykes, and wave breaks will be vast, says the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) emissions gap report, launched this week at an African environment ministers' meeting in Warsaw. It will cost Africa...
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