Energy and environment in Africa - the twin challenge of climate change mitigation and sustainable development

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography grade: 13 Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Summer Academy 2008) course: Energy & Environment language: English abstract: Climate change has emerged as the most critical challenge to sustained global economic growth social well-being quality of life and political stability in the 21st century. In the last two years two landmark reports - the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report and the Stern Review - have provided highly persuasive empirical evidence analytical explanations of observed trends and simulation model projections drawing stronger cause-and-effect linkages between human socio-economic activities and greenhouse gases (GHGs) and between the latter and climate change.