EAC seeks fairer deal at climate change summit

East Africa: EAC Seeks Fairer Deal At Climate Change Summit
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Kigali — As talks in the global climate change summit reaching a peak, the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) is calling for a fair deal which will be favourable to Africa and the region in particular. "Africa is not a major polluter like the ...

The Secretary General of the East African Community, Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera has cautioned the international community that the world was at a crossroads and the outcome of the Paris Climate Conference shall either bequeath a better, safer planet to future generations “or destroy our common heritage and our shared humanity”.
Speaking at the 21st Session of the Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), also serving as the 11th...

East African Community, Arusha, Tanzania, March 31, 2015:  The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has agreed to form a regional Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change.
The proposal was made during a policy dialogue on Climate Change and Gender for members of EALA to identify the role of parliamentarians in implementation of gender sensitive climate change policies.
The dialogue held on 27th and 28th March, 2015 in Bujumbura, Burundi, was organized by the EAC Secretariat in partnership...

The Chairperson of the Summit of the EAC Heads of State and President of the Republic of Kenya H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta addresses EAC Staff as Amb Sezibera and Chair of the Council hon. Phyllis Kandie looks on
----------------------------------------------  The Chairperson of the Summit of the EAC Heads of State and President of the Republic of Kenya H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, last evening engaged the staff of the Organs of the Community namely; the EAC Secretariat, the East African Legislative...

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.

With helicopters circling overhead, snipers lurking on the rooftops, sirens baring through the streets, and terse military police manning barbed-wire fortifications, European and African leaders kicked off their two-day summit in Brussels yesterday, seeking to renew a valuable relationship under threat from new suitors.

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.

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.

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