DECRYPTION – Floods, droughts, famines and hurricanes bear witness to the irreparable damage suffered by countries in the South. Many of these devastating events are attributed to climate change.
In Sharm el-Sheikh
At COP27, the global convention on climate change, in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), debates remain divided on “loss and damage”. The rich countries refuse to create, from 2022, a new specific fund for the countries of the South which consider themselves victims of irreparable damage caused by the climate crisis. However, more than 300 million euros were promised on November 17 by European countries, according to a census of Carbon Brief, a specialized site. Meanwhile, in the year 2022, Africa has been hit hard by hurricanes, floods, droughts or unusual heat spikes. Scientific studies have attributed many of these phenomena to climate change, and not to simple meteorological hazards.
From June to October, heavy rains caused flooding in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, killing more than 800 people in total. They “were made 80 times more likely by…
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