The Earth Summit that was held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, brought together more than one hundred heads of states and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was developed as the concerted effort to combat climate change. As indicated in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change – a 700-page report that was published in 2006, by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations identified agriculture, food and water as some of the key vulnerable sectors to climate change. Climate change is a particular threat to sustainable economic growth and to livelihoods of vulnerable populations. African countries can adopt irrigation farming as a measure to address climate change.

Source: GhanaWeb November 29, 2019 10:52 UTC