Ahead of a global summit on climate change in South Africa on Nov 28, scientists and activists are warning that the stakes at the conference could not be higher for the entire African continent. Darren Taylor reports.

Experts say climate change could break Africa’s agricultural backbone

Sir Gordon stated that more extreme weather events will happen in Africa because of climate change.

“You’ll get big droughts and big floods in many countries. Often a country will have both more droughts and more floods at the same time,”

Environmental experts say the extreme weather events are exacerbated by global warming, principally caused by harmful gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, from the burning of coal for energy.

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