Kini Nsom
4 April 2008
MPs have been called upon to fight to change the climate and mitigate the effects of global warning.
The call is contained in an open letter "Mr. Bamenda" Organisation distributed to the MPs last week."Climate change and global warming affect your constituency. Even as we write, your constituency suffers the direct and indirect effects of climate change" partly reads the letter.
The letter urges the MPs to vote green and vote climate change and not constitutional changes. The correspondence that is signed by Mr. Bamenda's Executive Director, Colbert Gwain Fulai. He enjoins the MPs to ignite climate debate in Parliament during this session.
"Your constituents notice a fall in crop yield: rivers and streams dry off, seasons fluctuate as climate conditions worsen" Gwain says. He holds that by advocating climate change legislation in Parliament, the MPs would be adding value in an era of changing values.
According to him, the challenge for Cameroon at this time is climate change. In the face of such a huge challenge, he says, "we have little time for slow reflection and action"
Gwain cautions the law makers to urge government to introduce legislation and set up institutions that militate for stronger national focus on global warning or climate change.
He urged them to use the ongoing session to urge President Paul Biya to not only transform into concrete achievement his announced National Observatory on climate change but also fuse the Ministries of Environment and Forestry and rather create a Ministry of climate change.
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