Novembre 2010 / Africa Monitor

Africa’s uranium producers stand to benefit as world reins in carbon emissions

Global warming has taken an outsized toll on many African countries. But with world uranium demand rising, there may be a way to recoup some of the losses.

By Drew Hinshaw,

Dakar, Senegal

Here’s one messy and convoluted way for the African continent to recoup the climate change losses it claimed at Copenhagen : uranium.

The mineral-rich landmass contributes just a fraction of the airborne carbon that the world’s top polluters let fly, but Africa arguably suffers global warming’s (…)