Warming: Africa requires North repairs

Books, television programs, films, magazines or music to share, counselor to discover ... Talk to news affecting in any way the econology, environment, energy, society, consumption (new laws or standards) ...
recyclinage
Econologue expert
Econologue expert
posts: 1596
Registration: 06/08/07, 19:21
Location: artist land

Warming: Africa requires North repairs




by recyclinage » 12/10/09, 08:48

Global warming: Africa demands "repairs" from the North

By Christophe PARAYRE and Romaric OLLO HIEN (AFP) - 15 hours ago

OUAGADOUGOU - Africa, the continent most vulnerable to global warming, demanded on Sunday "repairs and compensation", two months before the Copenhagen climate summit, asking that industrialized countries "polluters" be the "payers".

These "demands" from the least polluting continent but the poorest in the world come at a time when international negotiations are very laborious, even "dangerously close to an impasse", as stated by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. .

"For the first time, Africa will have a common position" at the Copenhagen summit, welcomed the president of the Commission of the African Union Jean Ping during the 7th edition of the Forum Global Forum for Sustainable Development on climate change.

"We decided to speak with one and the same voice" and "to demand repairs and compensation", he added in Ouagadougou, without however advancing any amount.

The president of the organizing committee of Forum, Burkinabè Environment Minister Salifou Sawadogo, estimated Friday to AFP at 65 billion dollars (44 billion euros) the funding needed for the continent to cope with climate disturbances.

"Officials must commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and to meet the principles of" polluter pays ", assured Mr. Ping, advocating the establishment of" new international funds to support poor countries ".

Marginalized in the world economy, Africa is also marginalized in the carbon market, which consists of financing a "green" action in a country in the South to "buy back" pollution in the North.

According to the AU official, out of 1.600 projects worldwide, only 30 are African, including 15 in South Africa, the continent's leading economic power.

In their final declaration, the six African Heads of State present decided to "support the making of quantified commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2020 compared to the 1990 level for industrialized countries ".

They also called "for the streamlining of procedures and the easing of conditions for African countries' access to the resources of the Clean Development Mechanism (MDM)".

Former French President Jacques Chirac "resolutely" spoke out "against the idea of ​​global compensation where Africa would be compensated for no longer touching its forests, for freezing its energy consumption and for renouncing its industrialization".

The French Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo for his part spoke to some journalists about the preparations for the Copenhagen summit.

"There is a lot of apprehension. The apprehension should not prevent decisions or too rigid decisions should not prevent the decision itself," he said.

“We have to find an intelligent cursor. The subject is not to humiliate anyone, not to punish anyone, it is not to close factories anywhere. The subject is to set the world in motion, every part of the world with its own logic, ”he insisted.

Six African presidents (Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Congo, Mali and Togo) attended the forum, the last continental meeting at the level of heads of state before the Copenhagen summit.

Copyright © AFP 2009. All rights reserved.


google news source
0 x

Back to "Media & News: TV shows, reports, books, news ..."

Who is online ?

Users browsing this forum : No registered users and 219 guests