Onu: milioni di sfollati e conflitti a causa del global warming


La Stampa


Il monito in uno studio che sarà pubblicato entro fine mese dal Gruppo intergovernativo di esperti sul cambiamento climatico dell’Onu(Ipcc).

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On 24 July, children and women queue for a food distribution, in the Badbado camp in Mogadishu, the capital. The camp, established three weeks ago, shelters almost 30,000 people who have been displaced from rural areas more affected by the drought. By 29 July 2011, the crisis in the Horn of Africa affecting primarily Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti continues, with a worsening drought, rising food prices and an ongoing conflict in Somalia. More than 12 million people are threatened by the regions worst drought in 60 years. Some 500,000 severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas are at imminent risk of dying, while a further 1.6 million moderately malnourished children and the wider-affected population are at high risk of disease. Somalia faces one of the worlds most severe food security crises; and as many as 100,000 displaced people have sought security and assistance in Mogadishu, the still-embattled capital, in the last two months, and tens of thousands are fleeing into Kenya and Ethiopia. Famine has been declared in the Lower Shabelle and Bakool areas, and it is believed all of Southern Somalia could fall into a state of famine without immediate intervention. Across Southern Somalia, 1.25 million children are in urgent need of life-saving assistance, and 640,000 are acutely malnourished. UNICEF has delivered supplementary feeding supplies for 65,000 children and therapeutic food for 16,000 severely malnourished children in Southern Somalia, and is working with UN, NGO and community partners to expand blanket supplementary feeding programmes where needed. UNICEF is also supporting a range of other interventions, including an immunization campaign targeting 40,000 children in Mogadishu. A joint United Nations appeal for humanitarian assistance for the region requires US$2.5 billion, less than half of which has been committed.

Il cambiamento climatico causerà centinaia di milioni di sfollati entro la fine del secolo, aumentando il rischio di violenti conflitti e spazzando via migliaia di miliardi di dollari di economia mondiale. Questo lo scenario descritto in un rapporto redatto dal Gruppo intergovernativo di esperti sul cambiamento climatico dell’Onu(Ipcc) che dovrebbe essere pubblicato alla fine del mese.
Basata su migliaia di analisi messe insieme dagli scienziati, la bozza del rapporto finale anticipata oggi dall’Independent prevede che il cambiamento climatico riduca del 2% ogni 10 anni per il resto del secolo la produzione alimentare, a fronte di una crescente domanda di cibo. Questo a sua volta porterà a un aumento di circa un quinto della malnutrizione infantile.

Fonte: www.lastampa.it
18 marzo 2014

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