Africa's contribution to the amount of emissions causing environmental warming amounts to 4% of the global total. Floods, hurricanes, and disrupted rainy seasons destroy ecosystems and threaten the lives of communities dependent on them.

Armed groups have benefited from this economic decline in several ways. The danger of these transformations is that they build an “economic system’ based on violence as a means of earning a living, paving the way for complex interactions that unleash continuous cycles of violence and counter-violence.