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Study reveals Africa will reach 1.5°C climate change threshold by 2040 even under low emission scenarios

Source(s): Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
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New research highlighted in CABI Reviews suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5°C climate change threshold-the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement-by 2040 even under low emission scenarios.

A team of scientists from the University of Zimbabwe, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya, and the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) conducted a literature review to develop a framework for just transition pathways for Africa's agriculture towards low emission and climate resilient development under 1.5°C of global warming.

They found that despite Africa emitting less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, the 1.5°C climate change threshold will be approached by 2040 in all five subregions of Africa, even under low emission scenarios. 

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Themes Climate change
Country and region Africa

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