Madagascar
Climate change impacts
Le 28 janvier est le “Jour d'impacts des changements climatiques au Madagascar” parce que, sur une base par habitant, il ne faut que 28 jours pour le Canadien moyen d'utiliser la même quantité de gaz à effet de serre qu'un individu du Madagascar utliserait au cours d'une année entière.
“Madagascar fait déjà face aux effets du changement climatique. Les principaux risques climatiques sont les cyclones, les inondations et les sécheresses. Ces troubles deviennent plus fréquents et plus intenses et génèrent des impacts significatifs sur la perte de vies humaines, la diminution de production agricole et animale, la destruction des infrastructures, la dégradation des ressources naturelles et l'érosion côtière.”
Pour plus d’information continuer a lire le document disponible à http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/napa/mdg01f.pdf.
It takes only 28 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Malagasy will produce over the course of the entire year. Therefore, January 28th (28 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Madagascar Day."
“In coastal regions, poor households have been affected by the damage to sensitive marine ecosystems caused by the warming sea temperature and ocean acidification. For example, coral bleaching and algae invasion of the Tuléar reef, the third largest of its kind in the world, undermines the livelihoods of thousands of traditional fisherfolk.”
For more information on climate impacts and adaptation in Madagascar, continue reading the OneWorld.net country briefing.
Story
“My name is Emile Jean and I live in Tsiandriona Nord.”
“I am from the Mahafaly tribe and the Temitongia clan. My village is between the forest of the lower Plateau Mahafaly and the ocean. I am a farmer like my father and his father before him, but there are some fishermen in our village too. I plant maize and vegetables. Half of what we grow is for our own needs, the rest we sell. Like every Mahafaly I have a couple of zebus."
“For some years now, we have been losing a part of our manioc yield because the rain comes too late. We also have more insects these days.”
To continue reading Emile’s story about climate change impacts in Madagascar, visit WWF’s Climate Witness page.
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