FILE: North Eastern province, Kenya - August, 2006 1. Wide of cattle skull lying on the ground as sun rises 2. Cow's carcass on the ground 3. Interior wide, women at treatment centre 4. Close up of infant crying Nairobi, Kenya - 29 May, 2007 5. Set-up of Grace Akumu, Executive Director for Climate Network Africa 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Grace Akumu, executive director for Climate Network Africa: "Now we have a scientific report that is backing Africa's case that Africa is going to be the most impacted continent by climate change, and this is the fourth assessment report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. I must say that it is not only Africa that is going to be impacted, in fact the whole world, but Africa is going to suffer most from impacts of climate change and I'm very glad that it is top of the agenda of the G-8 meeting in Germany." FILE: North Eastern province, Kenya - December, 2006 7. Aerial, flooding 8. People crossing flooded street 9. Refugee family with donkey cart wading through floodwater Nairobi, Kenya - May 29 2007 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Grace Akumu, executive director for Climate Network Africa: "Well, I would say that climate change is going to affect Africa in terms of development, the continent is not going to be able to develop because all the resources for which any country needs to develop are going to be impacted by climate change, either from flooding or from extreme drought. From extreme drought we are going to have our food security compromised. From extreme flooding we are going to have diseases which we do not manufacture the medicines to control but other than that we are also going to lose lives. I'm talking about malaria, cholera, dengue fever, etcetera." FILE: Somalia - December 2006 11. People walking through floodwater 12. Various, man in boat passing flooded houses 13. Wide, houses under floodwater 14. Interior, women and children at treatment centre 15. Mother holding an infant on drip 16. Another mother holding infant 17. Close up, crying infant STORYLINE: As Kenya continued to struggle with a drought that has destroyed hundreds of thousands of livelihoods, scientists have predicted that global warming will double the current temperature and drought patterns will worsen catastrophically. Grace Akumu, the Executive Director for Climate Network Africa, says that Africa will be the most affected by climate change, and placed much of the responsibility on the industrialised nations. "Now we have a scientific report that is backing Africa's case that Africa is going to be the most impacted continent by climate change, and this is the fourth assessment report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change," Akumu said. Unless immediate action is taken, the world's economy will be devastated, hitting the under developed countries the hardest. "I must say that it is not only Africa that will be impacted in fact the whole world, but Africa is going to suffer most from impacts of climate change and I'm very glad that it is top of the agenda of the G-8 meeting in Germany," Akumu added. Germany is preparing to host a summit for eight of the most industrialised nations blamed for the largest percentage of green house emissions whose top priority this year on their agenda will be climate change. The forum will be held in a small town called Heiligendamm. It is widely reported that global warming has effects such as melting glaciers, rising water levels causing floods, and widespread outbreaks of diseases such as malaria, cholera and dengue fever. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement, negotiated in December 1997, by which industrialised nations have committed to making substantial reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases by 2012. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c0e5687b3849863824f2c093dde1d0a9 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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