{"id":5238,"date":"2019-09-11T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"for-africa-going-green-is-not-a-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/11\/for-africa-going-green-is-not-a-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"For Africa, Going Green Is Not a Luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Carlos Lopes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cape Town \u2014 Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore\nthrough southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands, and displacing\neven more. In Mozambique, as much as half of all annual crops and critical\ninfrastructure were destroyed. In total, over three million people in the\nregion were affected. It was a stark reminder of Africa&#8217;s vulnerability to the\nintensifying consequences of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyclones are nothing new, but as climate change progresses,\nthey are becoming increasingly common: The Indian Ocean has an average of three\ncyclones per cyclone season; yet in this season alone, there were seven. The\nsame goes for other kinds of weather events. In Zimbabwe, more than two million\npeople are now facing an acute water shortage as a result of climate\nchange-induced drought. But even as Africa faces new challenges from climate\nchange, it also has major opportunities to expand its economy and reduce\nstill-pervasive poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The combined GDP of African countries vulnerable to climate change is on track to rise\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/datamapper\/NGDPD@WEO\/OEMDC\/ADVEC\/WEOWORLD\/AFQ\" target=\"_blank\">from $2.45 trillion in 2019 to $3.46 trillion in 2024<\/a>. Can Africa secure this economic progress without contributing further to climate change? The solution lies in a kind of Green New Deal \u2013 a comprehensive strategy for achieving sustainable growth, much like the one being <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/sites\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/files\/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">championed<\/a>\u00a0by some Democratic politicians in the United States. A pillar of such a plan would involve making large-scale investments in renewable energy deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201909100442.html\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carlos Lopes Cape Town \u2014 Earlier this year, Tropical Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa, killing hundreds, injuring thousands, and displacing even more. In Mozambique, as much as half&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}