ACPC makes the case for concerted, coordinated action on climate change in Africa

Abstract

The Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), Mr. Youba Sokona today said that the newly established center for climate change policy formulation in Africa would foster Africa’s response to the problems in a way no individual nation could possibly do. Addressing a plenary session of the 2011 Africa-Adapt Climate Change Symposium which opened in Addis Ababa this morning, Mr. Sokona said that impacts of climate change on the continent are too severe and too multi-facetted to be tackled by national institutions alone, calling for a regional strategy that brings together the common efforts and aspirations of the countries in the region. The ACPC Coordinator defined climate change as one of the key development challenges of our generation, especially because Africa as a whole is lagging behind on each of the eight MDGs.