up in smoke

The report, "Africa - Up in Smoke 2," is based on the latest available scientific research on the continent.

"But climate change is happening now and it is affecting people, not just polar bears -- in particular, poor people in Africa and in tropical regions,"

"A huge gap is emerging between awareness of global warming and action to deal with it," said Andrew Simms, policy director at the New Economics Foundation.

"Africa's precarious position on the front line of climate change reveals the complacency of rich countries whose greenhouse gas emissions keep rising and who have failed to deliver on even their current pitifully small promises of financial help," he said

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