Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for Ecowas On the Environment to Be Agreed At Accra Meeting

25 August 2010
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Economic Community of West African States (Abuja)
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Accra - Ghana — A two- day sub-regional workshop to develop appropriate mitigation mechanisms to enable West African states address the challenges of climate change opens in Accra, Ghana on 6th September 2010.

The meeting is part of the efforts by the region to develop regional Mitigation Action plans that will answer to the specific needs of the member states as well as explore and prioritise the potentials in the sub- region and discuss strategies for a road map for realising the plan. The NAMAs concept is one of the building blocks in the Bali Plan to pursue a shared global vision of avoiding dangerous climate change up to and beyond 2012. It represents a new negotiating roadmap for developing countries to participate in the global effort to combat climate change.

The NAMAs are expected to be implemented in the context of sustainable development either as a policy, program or a project. Participants will be drawn from ECOWAS member states, Inter- Governmental Organisations {IGOs}, NGOs and civil Society Organisations, the Academia and Research Institutions, businesses and the private sector. Overall, sixty participants are expected to attend the meeting.

Each participating country is expected to make a brief presentation on the status of their NAMAs. There will be statements by the Ghana's Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, the Country Representative of the United Nations Development Programme {UNDP} and the ECOWAS Commissioner for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources.

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