By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos
African Leaders have been charged to be united and prepared to counter the effect of the 2030 climatic reactions due to global emissions that would affect largely the North African nations of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Algeria.
Fadhel Kaboub, an Associate Professor of Economics, Denison University and the President, Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Fadhel Kaboub made the call while delivering a paper titled Climate Migration at the day-2 of the Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM) Intercontinental Summit at the Medgar Evers College (MEC), City University New York City in Brooklyn, USA.
The renowned Don, who did not ruled out other Southern African nations from the climatic reaction, based his submission on the scientific signs recorded by the World Bank in 2021.
The report said climate change could drive 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2030.
Other likely regions to be affected are sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, West Asia, North Africa, Eastern America and Eastern Europe.
Fadhel expressed concern about the nonchalant attitude of African leaders to global warming on climatic change saying the effect would lead to unimaginable inflation.
“Are we prepared for this? Because there would be pressure on infrastructure, food, housing and other necessities when this happens. Of course Africa should demand reparation and justice from the global north. Africa is part of the global south that is bedeviled with low degree of monetary sovereignty, high external debt, low productive capacity and is suffering from a neocolonial extractive economic system.
He called for negotiation with the counties like the US, Canada, UK and the Global North that are largely responsible for climate change to use their monetary sovereignty, high productive capacity and benefits from a neocolonial extractive economic system to mitigate the pending effect.
“The global north takes over 2 trillion dollars from the global south annually. It is unfair for the low income economies that are not responsible for climate change to be the ones at the receiving end. 10 years ago the global south was promised $100 but today has only $10 million.
“Africa must rise to improve her production chain and seek reparation to repair the damages being on the continent. The damages can be corrected through technical exchange, strategic policies, resources transfer and strong political will to end the financial migration” Kaboub advised.
