GLOBAL: Food wasted is water lost
JOHANNESBURG, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3.
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WEST AFRICA: Coastline to be submerged by 2099
ACCRA, 25 August 2008 (IRIN) - Swathes of West Africa’s coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.
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GLOBAL: Pressure on to reach emissions agreement
ACCRA, 22 August 2008 (IRIN) - Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August.
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GLOBAL: Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
JOHANNESBURG, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often.
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SUDAN-CHAD: Longing and gratitude – the refugee experience
DJABAL, 21 August 2008 (IRIN) - It is pitch black; the sun has not yet risen, but Achta Abakar Ibrahim is kneeling outside her straw home in Djabal refugee camp in southeastern Chad, praying to God.
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WEST AFRICA: Flood relief efforts continue
DAKAR, 15 August 2008 (IRIN) - Disaster relief teams have fanned out across West Africa to assess how badly the region was hit during the past month of heavy rains. Tens of thousands were affected in Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia and Mauritania according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA).
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CHAD: Torrential rain floods capital
NDJAMENA, 8 August 2008 (IRIN) - Torrential rain in the Chadian capital N’djamena has caused serious flooding that has cut off parts of the suburbs from the city centre.
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CHAD: Deaths from UXO “on the rise” says MSF
NDJAMENA, 6 August 2008 (IRIN) - Deaths from unexploded ordinance (UXO) are on the rise in Chad according to Karline Kleijer, head of programmes for Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), speaking to IRIN the day after seven people were killed and up to 17 wounded when a bomb exploded in N’djamena’s main market on 4 August in the second incident involving unexploded ordnance (UXO) in two days.
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GLOBAL: What we are doing about climate change
JOHANNESBURG, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt:
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GLOBAL: Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
JOHANNESBURG, 4 August 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week.
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