In Sudan this has led to civil war lasting from the 1980s.īetween 1983-84, famine alone killed nearly 100,000 of those living in its Darfur region. Alongside the cultivation of economic and political stability, increased peace as a product of addressing climate change efforts at that heart of much environmental protection and restoration work.Īcross the Sahel, stretching from Senegal in the West to Sudan in the East, prolonged periods of drought, intense desertification and soil erosion persist, resulting in depleted productivity of land, changes of grazing patterns, all because of climate change. Such research has paved the way, today, for reduction in the growth of climate change being recognised as an essential prerequisite to achieving peace in many parts of the world. Our results are consistent with a large body of research on the effect of climate on conflict and are of practical concern given increasing average global temperatures." The authors of that report concluded that: "When temperature increases, the number of terrorist attacks and deaths due to terrorist attacks tend to increase. This hypothesis has been recently expanded upon, with research indicating that - from 1970 to 2015 - local temperature increase in 159 countries also saw an increased number of terrorist attacks and subsequent deaths. Research on the so-called 'heat-aggression relationship' suggests there is a 10- 20% increase in the risk of armed conflict associated with each 0.5☌ increase in local temperatures. The most egregious form is the way changes in climate alter competition over increasingly scarce resources. In light of recent events, such as the mass kidnapping of the 343 schoolboys in Nigeria, the war in Tigray in the northernmost region of Ethiopia, as well as decades-long issues such as the Darfur war, the accumulating news headlines seems unequivocal: there is a growing link between climate change and conflict, and that link is seen right across the African continent.Ĭlimate change is widely recognised as a "threat multiplier" due to its role of exacerbating the traditional cause of conflict.
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