Posted on 08/29/2022 3:32:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Libreville (AFP) – African countries on Monday called for an end to a "climate injustice" saying the continent causes less than four percent of global CO2 emissions but pays one of the highest prices for global warming.
Government officials, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector from more than 60 African nations attended Monday's opening of Africa Climate Week in Gabon's capital to prepare for the COP27 UN climate conference in Egypt in November.
Host President Ali Bongo Ondimba told the gathering the continent has to speak with one voice and offer "concrete" proposals for COP27.
"The time has come for Africans to take our destiny into our own hands," he said, deploring the global failure to meet climate targets.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, head of COP27, which will be held in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, said: "Despite contributing less than four percent of global emissions", Africa was "one of the most devastated by the impacts of climate change.
"Also, Africa is obliged, with limited financial means and scant levels of support, to spend about two to three per cent of its GDP per annum to adapt to these impacts," Shoukry said, calling it a "climate injustice".
Denouncing the failure of developed countries to deliver on their climate commitments, he warned: "There is no extra time, no plan B and there should also be no backsliding or backtracking on commitments and pledges."
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They’ll sign anything for MONEY ,LOL
There’s a continent I can do without
“The time has come for Africans to take our destiny into our own hands,”
Dude. You are just now figuring out that the Europeans don’t give a hoot about you or your lives?
“African countries on Monday called for an end to a “climate injustice”..”
Tanslation: give us your money, iphones, car keys etc.
Maybe if we give them free money, they will finally be able to make some scientific achievement that provides for the betterment of all humanity, same as the poor people do in our country when we give them free stuff
No.
But, Wakanda?
But, Wakanda?
“pays one of the highest prices for global warming”
Show us your price tag! We hear that tired old trope all the time, but nobody ever shows how they “suffer.”
Translation. Send us your whitey money
"Gimme mo, mo, mo."
Multiply Zimbabwe by about 56 Times.
Cop 27
will Biden be in attendance?
I know a lot of FReepers think of Africa as this backwards continent, and in many respects it is, but they are prohibited from developing their resources and modernize thanks to UN and UN-affiliated groups who pay the warlords. Meanwhile, China is making deep inroads. If Africa were allowed to develop, Europe wouldn't be having this migrant crisis and a good percentage of blacks in America would relocate to Africa as well. A win-win for everybody.
I have a REALLY HARD TIME believing that one.
Yes, the greening of the Sahara is a real burden & tragedy.
If Africa were developed, I mean with no tribes or warlords, beaches, resorts, hot sunny weather almost everyday, you don’t think that blacks in the Northeast were it’s cold and wintry wouldn’t take the opportunity to move there?
How about every hurricane comes from that damn continent. Everything Africa has been a disaster from day one.
Biden will happily.
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