A CHAT FROM LONDON: Climate change ‘threshold’ and Paris global meeting

Berlin. The 6th Petersberg Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries in preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, opened here yesterday.

For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and citizens about the need for an urgent global response

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The Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA) conference series was conceived as an annual forum to enable linkages between climate science and development policy by promoting transparent discussions between key stakeholders in the climate and development community. CCDA seeks to mainstream climate information into decision making and strengthen capacities focusing on climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, food security, energy and transport. To support Africa’s towards...

In December 2015, all roads will lead to the French capital, Paris, for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), where a climate deal is expected to be clinched, heading off a repeat of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009.

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Dar es Salaam, 3 September 2015: Africa Climate Talks (ACT!) begins here today, (Thursday) to discuss the impacts and implications of climate change in Africa, and effective solutions.  The three-day discussions are part of Africa’s planning for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP21) where a new global climate agreement is the expected outcome at COP21 in Paris in December.

Under the theme, ‘Democratizing Global Climate Change...

 Representative of Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Transport Eng Edwin Mujwahuzi (Director of Transport and Infrastructure) presenting a speech on behalf of Permanent Secretary of Minister of Transport during the opening ceremony of GFCS kick off meeting on adaptation programme in Africa- Building resilience on disaster risk management, food security, nutrition and health. GFCS Kick off meeting participants from Ministry of Transport, Tanzania Meteorological Agency, World...

Representative of Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Transport Eng Edwin Mujwahuzi (Director of Transport and Infrastructure) presenting a speech on behalf of Permanent Secretary of Minister of Transport during the opening ceremony of GFCS kick off meeting on adaptation programme in Africa- Building resilience on disaster risk management, food security, nutrition and health. GFCS Kick off meeting participants from Ministry of Transport, Tanzania Meteorological Agency, World...

A good day becomes evident in the morning...so the Swahili proverb goes. It was ice cold but the sun was shining.