Kruger, Andries C.2018-05-142018-05Kruger, A.C. 2018, 'Africa and the Paris Agreement', 'Nature Climate Change, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 365-366.1758-678X (print)1758-6798 (online)10.1038/s41558-018-0146-5http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64930The African continent is one of the most vulnerable regions to future climate change. Research now demonstrates that constraining anthropogenic warming to 1.5 °C instead of 2 °C will significantly lower the risk of heatwaves to inhabitants.en© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.Water resourcesProjection and predictionHydrologyAtmospheric sciencePostprint Article