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“Despite recent high-level statements suggesting that climate change could worsen the risk of civil conflict, until now we had little quantitative evidence linking the two,” says Marshall Burke, the study’s lead author. “Unfortunately, our study finds that climate change could increase the risk of African civil war by over 50 percent in 2030 relative to 1990, with huge potential costs to human livelihoods.”
UC BERKELEY/STANFORD/NYU (US)—Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by more than 50 percent within the next two decades. Continue…
