Emmanuel Kendemeh
25 June 2009
The conference will take place from June 25-27, 2009 in Yaounde.
The National Assembly of Cameroon will from today June 25 to Saturday June 27, 2009, host the Pan-African Parliamentary Conference on climate change. The Yaounde conference will be a forum for the assembly of Parliaments of the Africa-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and European Union for the African region to put in place harmonised ideas and a common stand for the conference on the United Nations framework agreement on climate change to take place at Copenhagen in December 2009.
Leaders of the different African parliaments and environmental experts will discuss topics such as sustainable development and climate change, poverty reduction,, sustainable development and climate change, Green House development rights and sustainable development and the impact of climate change on agriculture and livestock production. They will also examine international climate change negotiations. Relating to this domain, there will be presentations on the need for climate change justice in the current climate negotiations, parliamentarians and climate change related national policies and regulations. Another concern during the three-day conference will be climate governance. The main concern in this domain will be the public participation in climate change decision.
Ahead of the Yaounde conference, the Coordinator of the Pan African-Parliamentary Network on Climate Change, who is also Questor in Cameroon's National Assembly, Hon. Cyprian Awudu Mbaya gave a press briefing in Yaounde Monday, June 22. Present at the press briefing among other personalities was Hon. Achille Topsoba, one of the network's official from Burkina Faso already in Cameroon to prepare for a hitch-free conference. Hon Awudu Mbaya said the resolutions of the Yaounde conference will be taken to African Heads of State so that they could speak at the Copenghagen conference with one voice. African government would also use the resolutions to lobby with different partners.
Speaking on the urgency in fighting against climate change, Hon. Awudu Mbaya cited recent studies which show that at least 300 000 people die each year all over the world from the effects of climate change. He said should the situation continue, from 2030, over one million people will die each year from the effects of climate change. The climate change network coordinator further cited other negative effects of climate change to be famine, sickness, environmental degradation, low living standards, drought, floods, cyclones and high levels of the sea that could make certain parts of the land to disappear. Africa, he said is among the poor parts of the world with less than four per cent pollution but suffers most from the effects of climate change.
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