The other issue

From a climate change conference in Edinburgh come two perspectives on the impact of global warming on water supplies. In Tanzania, droughts that would happen once a decade now come every four or five years. In India, the retreat of Himalayan glaciers such as the Gangroti are creating glacial lakes that increase the chance of flash flooding in the monsoon season.

Africa and climate change are the two issues at the top of the Gleneagles G8 agenda, but the latter often gets overlooked at the expense of the former. But the point of many of the speakers here is that African development is impossible without some form of action on climate change.