Africa

The Africa Group has backed 'Global Climate Community'' and a new initiative is being developed with the East African Legislative Assembly following a meeting in May 2004.

AGCC is working closely with Climate Network Africa.

NEW!! A short think piece on Africa and the future of climate change negotiations:

"Securing African participation in the post-Kyoto process will require coordinated political effort and donor finance. It will come up against the assumption, which was inherent in the Kyoto process, that most of Africa is marginal to a process seen as a negotiation on GHG emissions among serious emitters." Read more..

Key Events

10-12 October 2006
A West African Initiative: Benin Conference of Parliamentarians calls for Community-Based Equity in Kyoto 2

Parliamentarian Regional Sensitization Forum (PSF) on a Climate Community, where nine West and Central African Parliaments were represented, was held on 10th- 12th October 06 at the INFOSEC Cotonou Benin Republic.



The conference launched the African Parliamentarian Network for a Climate Community (APNCC) and was chaired by Honourable Rose Abunaw Makia, Deputy Speaker of the Cameroon National Assembly and Coordinator of The Environmental Caucus in this same Assembly. The conference and the new network bring together both Francophone and Anglophone members of African parliaments, as an important political departure.

The conference resolved to urge the Arusha conference of African parliamentarians that precedes COP Nairobi and the COP itself to implement the principle of equity through the approach of contraction and convergence (C&C) in the Post Kyoto Negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. It called for this approach to meet Africa's need to mitigate climate change in a way, which reduces poverty and enables sustainable development.

The new network of African parliamentarians will meet again in January 2007 to follow up the work of COP and deepen the involvement of parliamentarians at the local, regional, national and international level.

The conference was sponsored by AGCC in London, and the British High Commission in Yaounde, Cameroon.Click to download the press release.

18-21 October 05
AGCC co-organized a pan west-African NGO conference in Yaoundé Cameroon in 2005.


David Stephen and Raphaël Hanmbock met in
July 2006 to discuss actions to be taken
in Western Africa

Contacts in Africa

Grace Akumu is the Executive Director of Climate Network Africa (CNA)
P.O. Box 76479-00508
Nairobi
KENYA
telephone: (+254) 20 3864040
fax: (+254) 20 3873737

e-mail: cnaf [at] cnaf.or.ke

website: http://www.cnaf.or.ke

Raphaël Hanmbock Songo is Coordinator of the African Network of a Climate Community - West and Central Africa (ANCC/CWA).

P.O. Box 8910
Deido, Douala
CAMEROON

telephone:(+237) 33440618; (+237) 96309998
fax: (+237) 33427703
e-mail: climateafrica2005 [at] yahoo.co.uk
            r.hanmbock [at] africa-climat.org

website: http://www.africa-climat.org/