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Title: | Climate change: double-edged sword for African trade and development |
Author: | Nhamo, Godwell |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies (ISSN 1818-6874) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 117-139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | climate change international agreements exports |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18186870903481194 |
Abstract: | African governments face increasing pressure from major export destinations, primarily former colonial and slave-owning countries, to be climate-change compliant. Climate change is a double-edged sword: on the one side it is hitting Africa's agricultural sector with increased droughts, floods, extreme frost and wildfires; and on the other, African governments are being forced to respond to stringent regulatory regimes imposed by international export destinations. Currently, the per capita greenhouse gas emissions from the highly industrialized nations - the North - is estimated to be four times that of Africa and the rest of the developing world. Twin research questions were investigated in this article. First, to what extent does climate change impact on African trade and development. Second, how can African governments stay on a path of sustained trade and development in this era of climate change? This article argues that Africa's survival in these times of climate-change compliance rests on a shift to greater intra-African trade, as individual nations move towards cleaner and more organic technologies to become full-fledged partners in the international climate-change regulatory regime. Bibliogr., ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |