Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070

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I am currently volunteering at Mpapa Health Centre in a rural area of Tanzania. I have now delivered over 25 beautiful babies and am always busy caring for patients who come walking from villages miles and miles away to receive treatment that most of us would have from our own medicine cabinet.

The issue before the world, at this point in time, is not about why climate change is a threat and who is to blame for it. The most important matter before us now is about how to adapt and how to mitigate climate change effects.

We are also proposing an Africa Wide Programme on Mitigation. Africa is not a big emitter of greenhouse gases, but we see a lot of merit and benefit in the continent charting out an environment friendly development path. Indeed Africa’s contribution to climate change from fossil energy and transport sources in the global context is but only worth a footnote.

Some $10 billion has been pledged at the just-ended Climate Change talks in Lima, Peru organised by the UN for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to mitigate the impact of global warming.

Environmental scientists say; “when there is a downpour, there are disasters.” Validation of this statement can vividly be seen in what has happened in different parts of Tanzania and around the world.

Members of the Constituent Assembly (MCAs) want the second draft constitution to also acknowledge and give guidance on the utilisation of other key natural resources

>President Jakaya Kikwete has urged African countries to join forces if the continent is to reduce effects of climate change in the world.

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