Climate Change: African Leaders Urged To Speak With One Voice

The Pan African Parliamentarians?? Network on Climate Change has urged the continent??s leaders to adopt a common position during the Copenhagen conference. African Parliamentarians want the continent??s leaders to increase the number of negotiators, adopt a common position and speak with once voice in order to obtain a fair deal during the

UN conference on climate change scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The President of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Pan African Parliamentarians?? Network on Climate Change (PAPNCC), Cameroonian ??born, Hon. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian made the declaration yesterday, June 29 after presenting the 13-member executive committee of the network to the Speaker of Cameroon??s National Assembly, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril. The executive committee was put in place during the PAPNCC conference that took place in Yaounde from June 25-27, 2009. After the audience with the House Speaker, Hon. Awudu Mbaya also presented the executive committee of PAPNCC and the Yaounde declaration made after their conference to Prime Minister, Head of Government, Ephraim Inoni. He also used the audience to inform the Head of Government of the choice of Cameroon to host the headquarters of the Pan African Parliamentarians?? Network on Climate Change. Hon. Awudu Mbaya had almost an identical message to the press after the audiences with the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister. He said that for Africa to be given a just, equitable and favourable deal during the Copenhagen conference organised to review the Kyto Protocol, part of the UN Convention on climate change, ??Africa must have a common stand and speak with one voice??. African Parliamentarians, he said, resolved during the Yaounde conference to go back, sensitise and keep their respective governments and parliaments informed of the need to increase the number of negotiators and to speak with one voice at Copenhagen. They would also sensitise other parliaments and countries to effectively join the fight against climate change. This is because Africa that contributes less than four percent to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change, suffers most from its negative effects. The Pan African Parliamentarians?? Network on Climate Change has requested Cameroon??s House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril to transmit the Yaounde declaration of the network??s conference to the assembly of African Heads of State who will meet for the African Union summit in Sirte, Libya from July 1-3, 2009.
Emmanuel KENDEMEH, Cameroon Tribune

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