The island’s average temperature is 23–27°C but this year has been quite harsh on the population. And the temperature is projected to increase up to an additional 2.5–3.5 °C by 2100.

This increase in temperature also causes a hotter and dryer dry season, and a heavy rainy season. This means longer droughts in the central, western, and southern parts of Madagascar during dry season. In addition, rising global temperatures and the subsequent increasing ocean temperatures are increasing cyclone intensity.

Floods, erosions and receding shorelines are all impacts of global warming. But health risks are the highest. Increasing temperatures also enhance the range of disease-carrying vectors, the lack of drinkable water in rural areas, and the reduction of water for crops. While flooding will contaminate water and create loss of the yield.

The solutions are quite obvious. We can reduce the impacts by reducing slash and burn agriculture (using agroecology instead), by restoring forests coverage (littoral and terrestrial) and by using of renewable energy for a large island like Madagascar.