PACJA pledges to support LDCs in COP27

Dakar, Senegal: Pan African Climate Justice Alliance(PACJA) pledges to support the Least Developed Countries groupings in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiation processes during 27^th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).

Dr Mithika Mwenda, the executive director of PACJA, said, PACJA, with its a 1000 plus grassroot organisations in 51 African countries promises to ensure voices from the grassroot communities most affected by the impacts of Climate Change are brought at the discussion tables in COP27.

He spoke this while meeting Madame Madeleine Diouf SARR (3rd right), who is the Chair of the LDC Negotiating Team at the UNFCCC UN in Dakar, Senegal.

The United Nations identifies 49 countries as belonging to the group of least developed countries (LDCs), based on three criteria: low income, weak human assets and high economic vulnerability. Thirty-three are in Africa, ten in Asia, one in the Caribbean and five in the Pacific.

Article 4.9 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognizes special situations of the LDCs and states: “The Parties shall take full account of the specific needs and special situations of the least developed countries in their actions with regard to funding and transfer of technology.”