Africa-Press – Botswana. The Continent hopes at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-27) to obtain ambitious results, guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention and the Paris Agreement, particularly in terms of finance, adaptation, loss and damage, he said yesterday, in Addis Ababa, the African Union Commissioner, Josefa Correia Sacko.
The African diplomat who addressed the matter at a meeting to preview the event that started yesterday and ends on the18th, in the city of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
According to Sacko, this is a “crucial moment to shift the focus of negotiations and planning to concrete actions to accelerate adaptation to the impacts of climate change”.
“In this way”, he continued, “We hope that the promised 100 billion dollars for Africa, a promise made at the COP 26, will be unlocked, significant progress will be made in defining the new objective of collective mobilization for 2025, and establishing the financing of transition paths Fair to support developing countries”.
Accordingly, according to the African Union Commissioner, it is opportune to take into account the recognition of Africa’s special needs and circumstances under the Paris Agreement and the relevant previous decisions adopted by the COPs, given that the latest IPCC reports have frightening conclusions, in particular, with regard to the continent.” Africa is and will be more affected than any other continent, and the adverse impact of climate change is limiting the economic and development trajectory, although it only contributes with less than four 4% of greenhouse gases”, warned the diplomat, which forms part of the executive body of the African Union.
Josefa Sacko also defended the strengthening of technical support from developed countries, “so that losses and damages can be addressed through the establishment of effective provisions to deal with consequences associated with climate change”.
In the chapter on building resilience, based on the decisions and initiatives of the previous conference, the ambassador said that it is essential to approve funds to promote sustainable development and support countries
Africans for an “effective leap” in fossil-heavy development models, with a view to securing investment commitments for programmatic renewable energies.
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