Plan for crisis caused by climate change

Nairobi; Kenya: It is not often that all the people of Taita Taveta County — nearly 300,000 — pour into the streets for a demonstration. In fact, it has never happened. But it happened in New York when more than 300,000 people from all over the world flooded the streets of Manhattan in New York for the People’s Climate March. The historic march came one day before 120 world leaders convened at the United Nations for a Climate Summit.

Far away from the New York masses and speeches, climate change continues to stifle life in many parts of Africa. In several obscure villages in lower eastern Kenya, dozens of women spend days in search of water. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals that up to 80 per cent of cattle in this southern part of Kenya died during the 2009 drought.