As 2009 draws to a close, the world’s attention is focused on the December UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. World leaders’ failure to agree on the way forward could deal a deadly blow to the future of developing countries especially in Africa, where people are already suffering from the impacts of climate change, writes *Kwesi W. Obeng.

In September 2009, heavy rainfall across the Sahelian region of West Africa killed many, displaced hundreds of thousands and destroyed farms and infrastructure – effectively sinking many more families in poverty – in the face of the current debilitating global financial and economic downturn.

            In 2007-2008 massive floods swept across the entire middle of Africa – from Senegal in the west to Uganda in the east – killing hundreds of people, submerged whole communities, wiped out food and cash crop stocks, destroyed farmlands and livestock.

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