![]() Whenever world leaders gather, the Sahel tends to be eighth, ninth or tenth on the list of things to talk about, so it never gets the attention it deserves,” Lowcock said. “There is no disagreement about the underlying problems, but there has not been adequate action taken. On Tuesday the UN, together with Denmark, Germany and the EU, will host a ministerial conference on the humanitarian situation in the central Sahel region. Traditional modes of agriculture are particularly vulnerable to shrinking resources such as grazing and water. On some projections the average daytime temperature in the Sahel is expected to rise by eight degrees by the end of the century. “There is a totally inadequate level of international effort in helping these countries adapt to climate change.” “It is very striking how bad the climate problem is,” he said. Rapid population growth and traditional lifestyles reinforce the problem, Lowcock told the Guardian. Though extreme weather events are occurring elsewhere in the world, communities in the Sahel are much less resilient to changes resulting from climate change. ![]() Some of the record 13.4 million people who need humanitarian assistance across the border areas of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have been forced to leave their homes by unprecedented flooding across west and central Africa, underlining the threat that erratic weather caused by climate change poses to lives and livelihoods in the region. ![]()
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