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While African parliamentarians have low levels of knowledge on climate change and its financing mechanism, the high number of involvement in the process with the support of external donors does not augur well for the continent, Dorothy Tembo, Centre for Environmental Policy, Malawi said at the ongoing workshop on Climate Finance Effectiveness in Africa, Magalisberg, South Africa.
Climate Finance as currently constituted supports projects that not relevant to Africa, the Secretary General of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance has said.
Moved by the latest report that shows the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere had hit a new ‘symbolic’ 400 parts per million (ppm), the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), jointly with its national chapter, the Nigerian Climate and Sustainable Development Network (NCSDN), has urged all annex I parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to ensure emission cuts by complying to the recommendations of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underlining the need to reduce emissions at least by least 40 percent below 1990 level by 2015 and 100 percent by 2050 below 1990 level.
Yaounde, Cameroon 20-5-2013: The private sector in Africa should play a determinant role in devising innovative ways of dealing with climate change and spearhead the transition from dirty to clean development, Augustine Njamnshi, a Central Africa’s member of Continental Executive Committee of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) said at a recent meeting held in Yaounde, Cameroon.
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