Water takes centre stage at Paris climate negotiations
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The Executive Secretary of the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW), Mr. Bai Mass Taal, has welcomed the central position that water has taken in the climate change discourse, globally. Mr. Taal, who was speaking in Paris today at a High-Level Panel discussion on Water and Climate Change in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, said that it is no longer possible to talk about climate change without talking about water, adding that it is now impossible to imagine development programmes without considering the impact of water in their implementation. Water plays an important role at all levels of the climate system…be it in connection with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface and the biosphere, the impacts of climate change are felt mainly through water, the Senegalese minister explained.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2015-12). Water takes centre stage at Paris climate negotiations. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/36415”Collections
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