East Africa is one of the world’s worst-hit regions by climate change and is now experiencing its worst climate-induced extreme weather, fuelling an alarming hunger crisis, despite contributing almost nothing to global carbon emissions. As a result more than 26 million people are currently facing…
East Africa is one of the world’s worst-hit regions by climate change and is now experiencing its worst climate-induced extreme weather, fuelling an alarming hunger crisis, despite contributing almost nothing to global carbon emissions. As a result more than 26 million people are currently facing acute hunger across Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan, because of a two-year drought and years of flooding, compounded by displacement and conflict.
But what they also tell me is the money has run out and when you sit with communities and you hear them express that the livestock have perished and they understand now that the next consequence is that human life will be lost. It really does bring home the necessity for particularly western governments and in our case, I would say the Australian government to significantly increase the resourcing. We are able to save lives. We know we can do that.
And this has been a very clear message of the communities that I've been meeting with, is that drought in this case makes the probability of people moving and across them between national boundaries. Very great. And the thing that we need to understand is that if we don't engage with these issues effectively, they do lead to conflict.
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