Low-emitting countries pay the ultimate price for wealthy nations

Africa contributes minimally to global carbon emissions, but climate change is causing extreme drought and countless deaths there, writes Liz Dunphy

A young girl stands in a barren field on the outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland.

In any famine — like that which killed 1m people in Ireland in the 1800s and which now threatens many millions of lives in east Africa — the first to die are the children.

A starving mother cannot produce milk, leaving babies particularly vulnerable.