Natural Disasters To Increase in Mozambique

With climate change consequences predictions becoming ever more dire, natural disasters will become more common and severe in Africa's most vulnerable country.

It is the most vulnerable which will suffer the most. In Mozambique natural disasters such as floods, droughts, cyclones and epidemics will become more common as global warming affects temperatures.

Mozambique is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters as it has long stretches of low lying coast. As temperatures have risen over the past three decades, natural disasters and epidemic disease have increased - a trend that is likely to worsen in the future, says the National Disaster Management Institute's new \"Climate Change Report.\"

\"Mozambique's exposure to the risk of natural disaster will increase significantly over the next 20 years and beyond as a result of climate change,\" the study found.

The report, funded by the United Nations and Denmark, warns that Mozambique will suffer if the world does \"too little, too late\" to curb climate change. Mozambiques coast could shift 500m inland, natural disasters could become more severe and malaria more prevelant. Given that the population of the country is concentrated along the coast, a change of coastline could well be catastrophic.

Mozambique is still recovering from Cyclone Jokwe, which last year slammed into the northern coast with winds at 140 kilometres (87 miles) per hour, killing at least 17 people, injuring scores and leaving thousands homeless. It also suffered deadly floods that forced tens of thousands from their homes in 2000 and 2007.

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