Mozambique and Climate Change

(BBC World News)

Mozambique is widely cited as one of the countries most affected by climate change as a result of fast rising sea levels. The country has one of the longest coastlines in Africa spanning almost 1,650 miles with some 13 million people inhabiting the coastal areas. Year by year the situation in Mozambique worsens as sea waters continue to erode the country's coastline.

Few projects by the Government are underway to mitigate against coastal erosion and prevent flooding through proper drainage channels. Some of the necessary efforts to improve infrastructure is too costly to maintain. The Government has already made attempts to relocate people to higher grounds in an effort to prevent rising waters from sweepng into households. The consequence of relocation however, is the threat to people's livelihoods- many persons fish or farm for a living and removed access from the shoreline puts many families at risk from earning a living. If people cannot make a living, they become dependent on aid and Government support.

Mozambique will be present at the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change in December to lobby, as part of a united African delegation, for finaicial resources and transference of technologies to assist in combatting against Global Warming.

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