Desde Alianza por la Solidaridad-Actionaid se ponen sobre la mesa datos sobre África y el impacto del cambio climático durante el pasado año. Llegan justo el día en el que 18 seres humanos procedentes de ese continente han muerto en aguas de Lanzarote, tras lanzar un aviso de socorro. Los 9 supervivientes estaban agarrados, cuando llegó Salvamento Marítimo, a una lancha neumática. Seguramente llegaban meses, quizás años, viajando hacia un hemisferio norte que lleva siglos cambiándoles la vida: durante dos siglos con la colonización y el esclavismo; hoy, con un cambio en el clima del que dependen sus vidas al que han aportado muy poco y que se acompaña de violencia, guerras y olvido.

The year 2021 was terrible at the climate level for Africa, and especially for West Africa, precisely the region where in a few months the coup d'etats, bullowed by terrorism and poverty occur.The data collected alliance, which echoes the records of the Noo American Nooa agency, tell us that it was the third warmer year in the continent (only behind 2016 and 2010) and that this warming is the most pronounced on the planet.Specifically, there was a temperature of 1.33 ºC above the average of the twentieth century, when it worldwide it was 0.83ºC.Half grade more that brings that continent to the turning point of the 1.5ºC that scientists have marked as a limit and that the international community recognizes that it is a fact that cannot be reached.

On the climatic catastrophes we see in Mozambique the cyclones followed (in 2021 Eloise caused a real disaster) and in the horn of Africa the droughts, but the data reveal that the insidious increase in temperatures, that increase that destroys more slowly, affected onAll to Western Africa, particularly Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Guinea, Benin, Togo and Nigeria.It gives the chance that in three of these countries there have been blows of state in recent months: Mali, Guinea Konakry and Burkina Fashso.Countries where these political crises are related to the presence of Islamists or the landing of new economic powers, such as China, Russia or Turkey for some 'businesses' whose revenues do not reach a population, but also have behind that gradual impoverishment that ''Suda 'The changing weather.

“After the military blows in Mali and Guinea, and now in Burkina Fasho, there is the risk of a border closure that would be terrible for local agricultural markets throughout the area.There is talk of retaliation and in the end the usual ones suffer.Senegal, for example, is in the middle and many families live up to date with their crops, selling their products.The country also received tourism that with COVID-19 has stopped.But rains are increasingly unstable.And the great projects that arrive did not palore this situation, enhancing discontent, ”says Javier Larios, coordinator of Alliance in Senegal and Mauritania.

However, what does the rich world do to avoid this destabilization, bullowed by poverty?Everything indicates that the few existing climatic funds are not reaching those who should.Researchers at the University of Muchic have just published a job (in 'Global Envirommental Change') in which they conclude that almost half of the nations most vulnerable to climate change, from Haiti to Afghanistan, passing through Africa, they received nothing in theFirst Round of Aid of the Green Fund for Climate (GCF).In Africa, there was not a dollar for 13 of the 30 less developed and most vulnerable states of the 5.000 million distributed dollars.Now they say in GCF that since 2019 they have improved access but everything indicates that the procedures are so complex and bureaucratic that the most needy stay out.The situation is, in the surrealist: complexity forces us to allocate part of these funds to learn how to achieve them, which in turn requires cumbersome procedures, according to these scientists.

The worst thing is that behind this absurd there are people, elders and children, women and sick and that the system, in the end, keeps alive the ’climatic injustice” that means not polluting but suffering the consequences of climate change.

It is evident that the northern hemisphere is much more effective closing borders than in the fulfillment of its commitments and responsibilities.Where was that promise to pay collectively 100.000 million dollars a year in 2020 to finance adaptation to climate change?Well, now 2023 is postponed.And what will happen to this claim that the little that is distributed to whom who needs it most?The answer can be guess.

From the promised, the green climate fund has achieved a total of 10 in a decade.000 million, of those that have been disbursed today 2.900 million.In the German study, it is found as countries with serious climatic catastrophes, such as Mozambique or Zimbaue (the two most affected in 2019) appeared in positions 32 and 308 favored by the fund.

Although no one doubts that adaptation projects that could be launched, such as planting trees to avoid the expansion of desertcontinue exporting African natural resources, because industry there is no.A balance that will only generate more imbalance.

There is the case of the large port planned on the Senegalese coast, the N’dayane, built by a container company from Dubai, DP World, about 70 km.De Dakar, a virgin place where fishermen, birds and the baobads now live.60% of the port business will be for the Emirates and have announced since there will be a special economic zone, that is, nothing will be paid to the state of Senegal for trade from that place.They call it promotion of investment.

Traveling north, on the other side of the border, another great work is prepared in Mauritania, the N’diago port, 250 km south of Nuakchot.According to the Mauritan Authorities, it will leave the natural gas discovered in the Grand Tortue Ahmeyin interior site.Here is a Chinese company, very close to the mouth of the Senegal River, where the Langue National Park of Barbarie de Senegal is, a spectacular unique bird reserve in the world, and very tourist. Si en el primer puerto la inversión ronda los 900 million de dólares, en el segundo serán 352 millones.It is possible to ask what will benefit from fishermen, peasants and shepherds in these areas?Will they end up to the Canary Islands or colliding with the concertinas of Melilla?

The UN, in the 2021 adaptation gap report, acknowledges that climatic adaptation measures are not being a priority for many southern countries because, in reality, they do not have how to pay them, although it does not deepen the heart of the inaccessibilityto the squalid funds that exist.Let's not say to pay damage.In that matter the "there you manage" triumphs.

Despite this, at the last climill.Later, much less repairs are when sending weapons and soldiers for security reasons in the face of the increase in jihadism, which is knowing how to capture the young Africans disenchanted with the West.Condemned to die drowned or bad to live in their territories, many end up nourishing Al Qaeda's ranks, which pays them and feeds them when the wells dry.

Alliance for Solidarity-Actionaid, which has been in Senegal for more than a decade, has lived in 2021 record temperatures with 42.4ºC in November.Develop projects related to the ecological transition and the empowerment of women supporting community orchards and agroecological trade.They are financed initiatives thanks to Spanish cooperation (AECID, Generalitat Valenciana, Axcid Extremeña, the Andalusian Aacid or the Cabildo de Gran Canaria) that allow pumping water with photovoltaic plates or getting crops more resistant to droughts, more and more severe.

Of course, small actions much more committed to African populations than large macro-projects that far from investing in local development and alleviating losses, thus avoiding unwanted migrations and distressing deaths, end up generating more damage, either because the export of export ofThe same fossil fuels that increase the problem, because ecosystems and ways of life are destroyed or because none of the benefits that leave these great works will prevent poverty, violence and political instability.At the moment, in these times it is evident that the three things go more.