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标题：THE NEW DEVELOPMENT GULF: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEW FACE OF AFRICAN DEPENDENCY
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作者：Agaptus Nwozor
期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2013
卷号：15
期号：3
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：Global warming, which induces climate change, has monumentally altered nature's in -built stabilising mechanisms. The rich biodiversity which is vital to earth's stability is so overwhelmed that its rate of replenishment is grossly slower than its depletion. Although the ravaging effects of climate change are global, their worst manifestations appear to be in Africa. The sundry effects of climate change such as droughts, floods, rise in sea level, ocean acidification and other environmental problems are at the epicentre of Africa's current development challenges. Africa's dilemma is complicated by the seeming indifference of developed countries whose anthropogenic activities massively contributed in engendering climate change. This indifference manifests in lack of exemplary commitment of the developed countries to the various outcomes of negotiations in tackling the fallouts o f climate change; ambivalence in their promises of increased aid since the Gleneagles' G8 Summit and the floating of climate loans fund under the watch of the World Bank as a strategy to finance climate change adaptation and mitigation programmes. This paper uses secondary data to analyse the trend of climate change and its effects on the African econo mies. The paper examines the changes across Africa such as poverty and hunger occasioned by food crises, conflicts arising fro m struggle for dwindling opportunities for sustainable livelihoods and other uncertainties and argues that climate change is deepening the development gulf. The paper finds a disconnect between the expectations of the climate loan fund and its capacity to tackle the cl imate change challenge in view o f the condi tionalities attached to the loans and concludes that the loans are not only retardant but effective mechanisms to create unsustainability in African economies and thus circumscribe and mortgage their develop ment
关键词：Climate Change; Climate Justice; Sustainability; Climate Loan; Dependency; Development