Refineries and expensive private properties were already degrading as a result of climate change, Achim Steiner was quoted as saying.
"By some projections of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), global warming could affect one-third of Africa’s coastal infrastructure by the end of this century because we know that we are on a course of having sea levels rising between 20 and 60 centimetres this century," Steiner added.
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