In Hot Water: An African Perspective on Fisheries and Climate Change
ALEX BENKENSTEIN, SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
This article appeared in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on environment and sustainable development published at COP17. View it here.
Climate change will have significant impacts on the marine and freshwater systems that support the world’s fisheries. Indeed, many of these impacts have already been observed in scientific studies, including coral bleaching, ocean acidification and changes to the range of fish stocks in response to warmer ocean temperatures. In addition to these direct ecosystem impacts, fishing fleets and communities will face an increased risk of extreme weather events, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and other climate-related effects.
Africa is scaling up its Capacity to respond to Climate Change
DR MATS ERIKSSON, STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL WATER INSTITUTE (SIWI)
This article appeared in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on environment and sustainable development published at COP17. View it here.
The negotiators of the UNFCCC continue to discuss with stoic persistency the management pathways for the future of our planet. Meanwhile, as this slow and cumbersome process continues, incremental steps are taken on the African continent towards increased capacity to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change.
Climate Change is all about Water
ZAFAR ADEEL
This article appeared in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on environment and sustainable development published at COP16. View it here.
Many people may consider expanding deserts as the main manifestation of a warming planet, and that’s likely to occur. However, it is just one consequence of predicted shifts in the global water cycle -- changes that will affect the quality, timing and volume of precipitation and water availability everywhere.