Reducing vulnerability to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for better evidence
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Reducing vulnerability to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for better evidence
Abstract
Robert Fryatt and colleagues argue for more attention to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, a region that has contributed the least greenhouse gas emissions to the world's total but is more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than any other.
Conflict of interest statement
RF is an adviser for DFID. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.
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