Godlove Bainkong
3 November 2009
The British High Commissioner to Cameroon, Bharat Joshi was received in audience last Friday by Minister Pierre Hele.
The British High Commissioner to Cameroon, Bharat Joshi has handed over to Cameroon's Minister of Environment and Nature Protection, Pierre Hele, a map on the devastating consequences of a 4-degree Celsius global rise in temperature, as part of UK's support to Cameroon on mitigating the effects of climate change. This was last Friday during an audience granted the UK diplomat by Minister Pierre Hele.
During Friday's meeting, Mr. Bharat Joshi lauded government's efforts on climate and said all must work together to mitigate the effects. "We welcome the government of Cameroon's forward position on climate change", he said, adding that, "it is vital that the world comes together in Copenhagen to achieve the ambitious deal that heads off the worse effects of climate change". He disclosed that the UK is already leading the world in pledging to cut emissions by at least a third by 2020 and is supporting both the government of Cameroon and civil society on high impact projects that can help mitigate climate change.
The map was launched recently at the UK's Science Museum and impacts on human activity shown on the map are said to be only a selection of those that may occur. It also highlights the severe effects on water availability, agricultural productivity, extreme temperatures and drought, the risk of bush fire and rise in sea level.
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A very interesting and thoughtful article. The best way for Africa to help itself with GHG is to stop exporting oil and gas to the outside world. Gas that is valuable enough to ship abroad and sell should be sold at a price that is competitive enough to keep it home. Catch all of that gas, and use it for yourselves. You will then have electricity and cooking fuel both. It is maddening to see forests felled for charcoal cooking fuel while cleaner-to-use gas is being wasted. Each of your nations should try to be the last to run out of fuel. Move to solar, wind, geothermal and biofuels from wastes for your energy sources.
Other activities to fight climate change troubles include the restoration of your waterways to full functionality by clearing the weeds that clog them and the silt that they have left behind.
Just a factual correction. Nigerian LNG is not sold to Benin, Togo and Ghana. There is a gas pipeline from Nigeria to these three countries. But it does not carry LNG. It carries natural gas under pressure. Unfortunately, becuse there is insufficient gas being gathered and shipped from Nigeria, the pipeline has been empty for over a year.
In today's climate talk that's going and will be converse more in December must not be damaging to Africa. Together, Africa MUST STAND FIRMLY and get what she deserves - BETTER and LASTING AGREEMENT. That's, what is beneficial for Africa. Any negativities effects concerning our people standard of living MUST NOT be accepted by any Africa Government. The days of a/an African Live seeing as less than an insect or any other most be OVER and SHOULD NOT be negotiated in any Climate talks. Our "Africans" lives and living standard is/are as important as any other lives. Therefore, as Africans head to the climate talk in December, please open your ears, listen carefully, don't be trick, and don't accept anything lesser to solve your prombles for the betterness of your people in the whole of Africa - period !!!!! The days of damaging Africans' lives, enviroment, living conditions; the physical and metal abuses should and most all come to an end. Therefore, we "Africans" should not be conveince with their sweet tooth to accept something lesser where'in our people keep continue to suffer and die for their pleasures and the lack of consideration for Africans lives and living standards. God Bless Africa
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