The survey made a clear that climate change is causing despair across the five counties. As a result of the effects of climate change such as temperatures rise, land degradation, extreme heatwave, in 2022 alone, 23.7 million people were displaced according to the UK Meteorological Office. The number of Africans migrating because of climate change could reach 113 million people by 2050 according to Africa Shifts reportRickson Johnson also wants to migrate. “This 2023, the farm I made, it carried me back because all of the money spent, I did’t have because of climate change,” Rickson says. He wants them to stop traditional practices of cutting and burning the forests which are contributing to biodiversity loss and climate change.

Source: Daily Observer May 07, 2024 08:01 UTC