The climate crisis Africa didn’t create but can’t escape

Imagine trying to grow but being held back by forces you didn’t create. While wealthy, industrialised countries are the primary contributors to climate change, Africa is still struggling to take its first steps toward development. Despite contributing almost nothing to the problem, Africa is set to face the worst of its consequences. Africa, with just 4 percent of global carbon emissions, stands vulnerable to the effects of climate change—effects that it had no hand in creating. According to the United Nations, African nations, especially