Ahead of COP27 in Egypt – dubbed “Africa’s COP” – Carbon Brief used disaster data, humanitarian reports and local testimonies to investigate the extreme weather events of 2022 in Africa – and examined how they might be linked to climate change, according to scientists.
The impact of extreme weather on the lives of Africans is an example of “loss and damage”, a term that describes how climate change is already harming people, particularly the world’s most vulnerable.
Loss and damage are likely to feature prominently at COP27, where the nations of the South will be calling on developed countries to provide funding for the climate impacts they are already suffering.
“Africa contributes 4% of global emissions, yet it is on the front line of loss and damage. Financing loss and damage is non-negotiable”.
Adenike Oladosu, climate activist from Nigeria.
