Thread by @Nathalie_Andria

🚀 Day 2 of One Planet Fellowship’s #Science Week is on at the #Corum of @montpellier_ !

This morning focuses on #Climate in #Africa with several GIEC (@IPCC_CH) speakers 🎤

Let’s go! ⤵️
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@AWARDFellowship @Agrofondation @Cirad

https://twitter.com/nathalie_andria/status/1668151907498467328

🫶🏾 First introductions by Damien Conaré, General Secretary of @UnescoChairFood, Mylène Aycard-Gueydan, General Secretary of @Agrofondation, and Vincent Blanfort, Co-leader of the Strategic Scientific Field « Climate Change » in @Cirad

Let’s dive in the most recent @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport w/ a focus on the impacts of CC on the African continent

🎤 To start off, Aida Diongue Niang, Meteorologist and Technical Advisor @meteosenegal, set the scene walking us through « Physics and CC » (IPCC/GIEC Group 3 writer)

✍🏾 Key takeaways
- CC is unquestionably caused by humain activities
- Recent CC is global & rapid, escalates, & is at a level without precedent in the past thousands of years
- CC already affects all regions worldwide
- Natural variability in some regions masked the effects of

🫣 CC until now (#cooling). Soon we’ll be hit by the actual impacts of CC, that are even going to intensify with the increase of global warming
- Risks and impacts are complex, combined, simultaneous and difficult to manage
- For some changes, there’s no turning back, but

some of them could be slowed down and even stopped!

« The climate we will experience in the future depends on the decisions we take now »

Listening now to Edmond Totin, Senior Lecturer at Université Nationale d’Agriculture in Bénin,

about the « Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation »
(@IPCC_CH Grp 2 writer)

✍🏾 Key takeaways
- Current adaptation actions are not enough nor efficient (high frequency and intensity

of extreme events in Africa; CC uprooting hundreds of thousands of people)
- the hope: multiple, feasible, efficient and #fair options are available to reduce GHG emissions
- but may need to be more transformational than incremental, and implemented at a big (worldwide?) scale

Barriers to climate resilient develpmt🫸:
- Finance: <4% of global #research funding spent in Africa, in which 14.5% direct my managed by African institutions; too much of a delay between approval and disbursement
- Governance
- Other priorities (w/o realising CC is interfering)

- Availability or access to data
- Understanding of the climate change

🔎 Leads:
- Adapt mesures to the different (local) contexts - e.g. improving climate literacy, capacity building (towards local population, local leaders/decision makers and researchers)

- Advocate for scaling up and applying Best Practices widely
- #Equity/#socialjustice: countries that contribute the least to the effects of CC suffer the most as they don’t have the same capacity to deal w/ it and implement climate actions
➡️ “Sharing burdens & benefits”

- Increase fundings -and simplify financing mechanisms- of climate actions
- Regional initiatives to foster global coordinated actions

Enablers of effective climate action: 📷📎

In light of the diagnostic & impacts, now let’s see what are the “#Mitigation strategies” for #Africa,

with Nadia Maïzi, Director of @TTI5_MinesParis in France
(@IPCC_CH Grp 3 writer)

✍🏾 Key takeaways:
- Africa only emit 9% of total GHG
- Perspective: ↗️
but

- Solutions with high potential of GHG emissions decrease by sectors
- If implemented before (/by) 2030
- ⚠️ Not all applicable as-is worldwide, incl. the African continent (regions specificities)

🛠️ Main solutions:
- Energy: ⚡️mix; ↘️ the use of fossil fuels
- Agriculture: changes in land-use, incl. conservation & reforestation
- Industry: recycling, waste management
- Cities & buildings: greening of cities, buildings renovation
- Transports: electrification

⚠️in Africa, highly dependent on mining
- Demand & services: changes in our lifestyles, sobriety, etc. to ↘️ our carbon print

💪🏾 Challenge: there may be some financing issues w/ (some of) the solutions, and

we need a systemic and holistic approach so solutions somewhere don’t create issues elsewhere

❔To go further and sum up this morning, Q/A!

🎤 Qs from the audience & As from

our 3 @IPCC_CH /GIEC speakers,
welcoming again Benjamin Sultan (@ird_fr/ #OPF),
still moderated by Damien Conaré (@UnescoChairFood)

Very interesting questions!

Sharing few more insights ⤵️

🍼GHG emissions related to development of societies (consumption, technologies, etc.) vs birth rate (e.g. China’s ↘️ birth rate while GHG emissions↗️)

🔦 IPCC/GIEC highlights all the possibilities but can’t make any predictions (2100, 2070, even 2050 is too far)

♻️ energy hydrogen based is renewable depending on how it is synthesised: if its ‘origin’ is not mentioned, there may be sth fishy

☯️ Reminder: as a solution has to be tailored (adapted locally) but will also have an effect or impact globally, always weigh the benefits and risks

👋🏾That’s a wrap for me, but #Science Week continues!

Again, big🙏🏾&👏🏾to all people involved in the One Planet Fellowship #OPF💪🏾💚

Dear #Montpellier, take care of these brilliant minds!☀️

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#research #climate #mitigation #biodiversity #Africa #agriculture #gender #socialjustice