Climate Change Can lead To Wars
June 24th, 2007
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A new UN report claims that the war in Darfur is due to climate change,
The UNEP investigation into links between climate and conflict in Sudan predicts that the impact of climate change on stability is likely to go far beyond its borders. It found there could be a drop of up to 70% in crop yields in the most vulnerable areas of the Sahel, an ecologically fragile belt stretching from Senegal to Sudan. “It illustrates and demonstrates what is increasingly becoming a global concern,” said Achim Steiner, UNEP’s executive director. “It doesn’t take a genius to work out that as the desert moves southwards there is a physical limit to what [ecological] systems can sustain, and so you get one group displacing another.”
He also pointed to incipient conflicts in Chad “at least in part associated with environmental changes”, and to growing tensions in southern Africa fuelled by droughts and flooding.[link]
And it warns that the future remains grim,
..which threaten to trigger a succession of new wars across Africa unless more is done to contain the damage, according to a UN report published yesterday.
“Darfur … holds grim lessons for other countries at risk,” an 18-month study of Sudan by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) concludes.
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