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Data show dire climate outlook for Africa

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body tasked with providing scientific information on climate change, has released a major new report titled ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, pulling together evidence from a wide range of current and ancient climate observations. It’s the most up-to-date understanding of climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science.

It is crucial that we have a good understanding of the findings, as they give an indication of what our future could look like. According to the report, global warming is evident, with each of the last four decades being

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