VIDEO: Cocoa threatened by climate change

Malawi, where most of its citizens cannot afford to use electricity, says it will join the battle against climate change - but only with funding from richer nations.

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.

Tamasin Ford reports from Ivory Coast, which is opening up the mining sector to extract a wealth of untapped mineral deposits beneath the soil, in particular gold.

Cocoa grown by small-scale farmers in Sao Tome and Principe, is being imported by Swiss chocolate makers, Favarger.

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.

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

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

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.