Climate Change – Page 4 – Global South Policy Review

If we want to better understand the climate-regulating role of Earth’s oceans, we must increase the effort we put into observing them, with a focus on our planet’s largest heat sink, the Southern Ocean.

Climate change and adaptive water management: innovative solutions from the global south

Charlotte MacAlister

Climate change is one of the most pressing threats to sustainable development across the globe. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014) notes that 93% of the impacts associated with climate change will be felt in the water sector. Climate change is already altering precipitation patterns and snowmelt, impacting the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts, and contributing to more extreme weather events and wildfires globally.

Climate change effects on vulnerable populations in the Global South: a systematic review

Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu

The climate and environmental changes in the Global South have devastating effects on vulnerable populations, which have been perpetuated by socio-economic and political as well as gender inequalities and non-existent interventions to adapt and mitigate its adverse effects.

Literature Review of Climate Change and Indonesia’s SDGs Strategic Issues in a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Muhammad Alfarizi

1. Introduction There is no country without environmental problems. Almost all countries in the world are experiencing this problem which is quite difficult to solve. Currently, there are many misfortunes caused by environmental changes. Environmental Change, as defined by Article 1 of the UNFCCC is an environmental change caused either

African Climate Change Adaptation Performance Index

Epule Terence Epule

Introduction According to the Firth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), temperature in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is projected (RCP 4.5 scenario) to rise by about 1.5–2.5 °C by 2050 (IPCC et al., 2014). In terms of observed trends, SSA has witnessed a 0.2–2.0 °C increase in temperature (IPCC, 2007).

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and malaria – the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson

The winds that whip the towns of the Eastern Cape in South Africa have the power to generate energy. But on a dry, hot day, those winds can gather up embers and dump them into tinder dry savannah and forest, destroying crops, fodder and homes, and taking lives. Wild fires

Climate change and food security in South Asia: the importance of renewable energy and agricultural credit

Abdul Rehman

Weather, trade restrictions, rising oil prices, a lack of financial support for farmers, and other factors have contributed to the destabilization of South Asian food security. The purpose of this study is to determine the long-run and short-run relationships between climate change, agricultural credit, renewable energy, and food security for

Mother and baby take refuge from drought and hunger at a refugee camp in Somalia. Giles Clarke via Getty Images

Why mothers and babies will suffer more as Africa grows hotter

Matthew Cherisch

As Africa gets hotter, mothers and babies are most at risk. Why is this and what can be done about it? Matthew Chersich, a specialist in climate change and maternal health, explains the reasons to health editor Nadine Dreyer.

Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley – where air pollution often obscures views of the Himalayan peaks (Image: Frank Bienewald/ Alamy)

A united South Asia can beat air pollution

Martin Raiser

At a recent meeting for the launch of a new World Bank report on air pollution, held in Kathmandu, Pema Gyamtsho, director general of ICIMOD, asked by a show of hands how many people in the room actually saw the peak of Mount Everest on their way to Nepal’s capital.

We need accountability from oil companies at COP28, not leadership

Omair Ahmad

In his masterful polemic, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, the American journalist Anand Giridharadas takes a close look at how charitable giving by billionaires impedes rather than helps reform.

Bacterial colonies growing on a petri dish (Image: Alamy)

What melting Tibetan glaciers reveal about disease and global warming

Cheena Kapoor

As the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide in 2020, scientists scrambled to produce vaccines. Millions of lives were lost, even though the existence of coronaviruses – the class to which the virus causing Covid-19 belongs – was well known.

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