A gas flare in Nigeria:The effects of gas flaring impacts on global warming in Africa. (Photo Courtesy Peter Roderick/Friends of the Earth)

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.