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HM Governor's Office

in Anguilla

London 22:31, 16 May 2012
   

Ethiopia

The blue nile waterfall in Ethiopia (iStockphotos)

Climate change could have a devastating effect on this already vulnerable country.  More uncertainty in patterns of rainfall threatens to undermine the basis for current food security strategies.  This would have serious implications for Ethiopian social infrastructure, which has virtually no capacity to adapt.

Key facts
  • Population: 85,237,338
  • Surface area (square kms): 1,104,300 sq km
  • Population density in 2007 (per square km): 75.3
  • GDP: $66.29 billion
  • CO2 emission estimates per capita (metric tons): 0.1
Energy production  
  • Electricity (kW-hr; 2004): 2,547,000,000  
  • Crude petroleum (barrels; 2004): none  
  • Petroleum products (metric tons; 2004): 3,000  
  • Natural gas: none (none)
Energy consumption
  • Electricity (kW-hr; 2004): 2,547,000,000  
  • Crude petroleum (barrels; 2004): 5,600,000
  • Petroleum products (metric tons; 2004): 1,624,000
  • Natural gas: none

A safety net against famine in Ethiopia

Over the last four decades, Ethiopia has repeatedly been hit by drought. Faced with famine, time and again its people have had to sell precious assets such as cattle and ploughs to survive

Africa position on climate change

Ministers from 10 African nations meet at the African Union Climate Change Summit to agree common position in lead up to Copenhagen