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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.

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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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

The government has pleaded with development partners to timely and sufficiently deliver on their commitments to support the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

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

There were repeated calls this past week to save the glaciers on top of Mount Kilimanjaro that have been melting at an alarming rate. There is no denying that Africa’s Rooftop, as Mt Kilimanjaro is affectionately known, has seen a fair share of its snow vanish following decades of environmental degradation and global warming.