The United Nation (UN) Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action Summit says it is time for the world to cut the speeches and take concrete actions to address climate change.
Mr Luis Alfonso De Alba said focus should now be on the identification of necessary resources for specific and tangible projects, to give impetus to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change and other documents birthed by years of negotiations.
The meeting, held alongside the Africa Climate Week (ACW) 2019, was to enable the special envoy to interact with the minister ahead of the Climate Change Summit slated for September this year, to which the ACW was a forerunner.
Mr De Alba said by September, there should be a list of transformative and concrete actions that will suit different countries and regions and hoped that the UN could count on Ghana to propel climate change action agenda.
He said the UN Secretary General was concerned about efforts to address climate change, and had observed that, the level of enthusiasm needed to be whipped up to match up the increasing impact of the phenomenon.
Noting that Africa suffered the most from climate change, although it contributed less to it, he said the continent should not repeat the mistakes of the developed countries that triggered the change.
According to the envoy, it was feasible for Africa to industrialise and facilitate its development and at the same time fight climate change through the use of environmentally friendly options such as renewable energy.
However, Mr De Alba said this would require a combined effort of all, particularly the contribution of the private sector through the sharing of ideas, technology and financial resources.
He said UN stood ready to facilitate the needed collaboration to help institute mitigation and adaptive measures, and called on all countries to take keen interest to the September summit.
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