Communities across Africa are among the most vulnerable when it comes to the climate crisis, but those migrating are often the ones who are climate literate, according to a study published in the science journal Climatic Change..
12 November 2022 - 15:43The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says in Kenya more than 90% of open water sources are drying up in some areas. About 650,000 children are acutely malnourished.Communities across Africa are among the most vulnerable when it comes to the climate crisis, but those migrating are often the ones who are climate literate.
But on average in their large-scale study, he and co-authors found that “only 44% of respondents are climate literate”.
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