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AGCC and Africa

The Africa Group has backed the 'Global Climate Community'' approach 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 and African Network for a Climate Community.


Past AGCC events

14 December 2009

Peter Luff spoke at a meeting organised by the African Network for a Climate Community at the Crowne Plaza, Copenhagen, on14th December 2009.

21-27 August 2008

AGCC attended the Accra Climate Change Talks, organised by the United Nations in Accra, Ghana.

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29 October-1 November 2007

AGCC attended the "African Preparatory Meeting in the Lead-up to the UNFCCC COP13/CMP3", held in Abuja, Nigeria. Organised jointly by the Federal Government of Nigeria, UNEP and UNFCCC

6-17 November 2006

AGCC attended the UNFCCC COP 12 organised in Nairobi, Kenya.

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

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

 

 




 

AGCC publication

A short think piece on Africa and the future of climate change negotiations (April 2007):

"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."
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