Birahim Papa NIANG story on loss and damage experience by his family highlights how the definition and experience of loss and damage differs from one context to another.
Birahim Papa NIANG story on loss and damage experience by his family highlights how the definition and experience of loss and damage differs from one context to another.
When the warm, moist air over the ocean rises, it creates a lower air pressure below, which forces the surrounding air to follow. Eventually, this cycle takes the form of 'A Tropical Storm'. When this storm reaches a windspeed of more than 100km/h, it officially becomes a hurricane or cyclone. Cyclones are of different types […]
Juliet had never heard her mother curse before. Such obscenities were usually restricted around her 8-year-old ears. “Shit man, Andrea! What you mean the line is out the door?” Juliet’s teenage sister Andrea had embarked on the journey to the supermarket earlier that morning to stock up on canned and dry foods and bottled water […]
Flooding is the covering by water to an extent of submerging land and properties that is usually considered dry. Weather/climate patterns have a strong influence on when and where floods occur. The land management practices in the upper catchments may also contribute to the enhancement of surface water run-off and flooding and an unplanned human […]
My Climate Story begins with my ancestors crossing the Kala Pani (Black waters) Atlantic Ocean from India to British Guiana as part of the Indentured Servitude. Some came through being captured, some because they were promised lands in British Guiana, and most came without understanding the contract they had signed. My ancestors came to replace […]
The Far North Region of the Republic of Cameroon is the northernmost constituent Area, threefold victim of phenomena such as the Islamic sect Boko-Haram, the Covid-19 pandemic and most importantly the devastating effects of climate change. Our mission, (fully funded by Global Youth Mobilization and conducted by YUNIBF in early June 2022), took us to […]
This is the story of a young man who was forced to leave his village of residence to live in the city: this is my story, I am Paul Lodry. I was born in Yaounde but I spent part of my life in a village called Mfueng before having to return to the city of […]
Azeez tells a story of his experience of an intense rainfall incident in Nigeria and how that has shaped him to be the climate change activist he is today
Monica highlights the impacts of floods in Nepal and captures an experiences of flooding by Tirtha a 72 years old woman and an eight year old in Nepal
Ali highlights the impact of floods in Sudan by drawing from a lived experience of a woman called Hawa and concludes by providing a brief overview of the quantified losses and damages from the floods in Sudan
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