Holding back the tide in Dakar
Posted by Lynn on 11 October, 2009
Dakar’s sprawling suburbs stretch along the coastline of the Cape Vert peninsula. Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Senegal’s capital in search of work and they have made their homes wherever possible, often along the seashore.
Co-ordinator for UNESCO's adaptation to climate and coastal change project in West Africa, Professor Isabelle Niang, took us to her home town, Rufisque a fishing community and dormitory town for Dakar to show us how the sea is invading the suburb. You can see her sitting on the sea wall in the picture on the left.
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Morocco's unique vulnerability to climate change
Posted by Lynn on 17 September, 2009
Morocco's 3,500km of coastline makes it particularly vulnerable to sea level rise.
With most of its economic activity near the coast, no legislation preventing building in the coastal zone and the government reportedly selling coastal land to developers at notional prices, climate change is a real threat. Small scale farmers increasingly find themselves competing for water with thirsty golf courses and hotel swimming pools. While in other parts of the country flooding causes devastation.
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Presalted Lamb
Posted by Tim on 8 September, 2009
Lambs gambling in meadows around Mont Saint-Michel have a hard life. Grazed on the bay’s low-lying salt marshes, periodically drenched by seawater and then blown dry by the salty winds whipping off the Channel they are considered salted long before they reach the chef’s pot. The lamb’s high consumption of salt results in tender and juicy meat, served up as a delicacy in local restaurants. However, the French government has drawn ranks to fight against the conditions that produce this dish.
Mont St Michel is France’s most popular tourist attraction outside Paris. Tourists flock to admire its ethereal beauty, shrouded in sea mist and cut off from the mainland by the sea. However, it is threatened by the very industry that champions it.
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The knock-on effects of sea level change
Posted by Will on 13 May, 2009
So sea level change will profoundly change the geography of our coastlines, but what are the knock on effects for inland areas. Population migration and increased competition for agricultural and water resources will lead to inland areas being put under profound stress. A group of scientists in U.S.A are currently researching these impacts on the Lake Wales Ridge area of Florida. The consequences look pretty frightening.
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Now, what I want is Facts
Posted by Tim on 11 May, 2009
The climate change discourse is awash with facts but since 2007 there has been scientific consensus around an important one that ‘most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities’. This was the statement issued by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001 from which no national scientific body of national or international standing now maintains a dissenting position.
Here we look at some important figures and answer one of the questions we are asked repeatedly - how far have sea levels risen already?
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West African governments take action
Posted by Will on 4 May, 2009
Two weeks ago in Banjul, a sea level change adaptation project involving five countries – The Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal – was launched in Banjul.
The goal of this project is to develop and pilot a range of effective coping mechanisms for reducing the impact of climate change induced by coastal erosion in vulnerable regions in the five participating countries. Acquired and implemented by the National Environment Agency (NEA), the adaptation to Climate Change and Coastal (ACCC) project is funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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Sierra Leone: time running out for coastal slums
Posted by Will on 2 May, 2009
The three big climate change challenges facing the International Community are commonly recognised as:
- How to stop and reverse further global warming (mitigation).
- How to live with a certain amount of global warming (adaptation).
- How to design a new model for human progress and development that is climate proof and climate friendly and gives everybody a fair share of the natural resources on which we all depend.
Whilst governments and corporations are wrangling over different ways to confront these challenges, one thing is abundantly clear: it is the richer countries who will have greatest responsibility for mitigation, and the poorer countries – often most under threat due to sea level rise – who will be under greatest pressure to adapt.
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Separating the men from the boys (and girl)
Posted by Tim on 14 April, 2009
I’m pretty good at driving. I’m a man. What more can I say? Not much the Land Rover Experience centre in Herefordshire could teach me then.
We had come to learn to drive the Defender, that box-like brute that you associate with the words ‘Land Rover’, and the model we have been leant to initiate Atlantic Rising.
Herefordshire is Land Rover country and Eastnor is its stable, paddock and exercise ground. Here, immaculately groomed cars, in showroom silver (it disguises the scratches best), line the Land Rover Experience yard like Grand National thoroughbreds.
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