Many countries in Africa are striving towards achieving the sustainable goals and climate change is one of the greatest threats to achieving sustainable development, a senior official of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Director for ECA’s Special Initiatives Division(SID), Fatima Denton, told experts, meeting ahead of the scoping session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that it is important for the panel to find ways of threading sustainable development and climate action, particularly mitigation, in the same needle to leverage climate action.
Bringing together 200 experts from some 60 countries, the session will be held from 1- 5 May 2017 in Addis Ababa to draft the outline of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC, which, according to Ms. Denton, should support African countries in their developmental trajectories.
De nombreux pays d’Afrique s’efforcent d’atteindre les objectifs durables et le changement climatique est l’une des plus grandes menaces pour un développement durable a annoncé vendredi à Addis Abeba, en Ethiopie, un haut responsable de la commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) des Nations-Unies.
La directrice de la division des initiatives spéciales (SID) de la CEA, Fatima Denton, a déclaré aux experts, qui se réunissaient avant la session du groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC), qu’il est important que le groupe spécial mette au point des moyens de combiner le développement durable et l’action sur le climat, en particulier l’atténuation, pour tirer parti de l’action climatique.
Réunissant 200 experts de quelque 60 pays, la session se tiendra du 1er au 5 mai 2017 à Addis-Abeba pour rédiger le résumé du sixième rapport d’évaluation (AR6) du GIEC qui, selon Mme Denton, devrait soutenir les pays africains dans leurs trajectoires de développement.
Many countries in Africa are striving towards achieving the sustainable goals and climate change is one of the greatest threats to achieving sustainable development, a senior official of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Director for ECA’s Special Initiatives Division(SID), Fatima Denton, told experts, meeting ahead of the scoping session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that it is important for the panel to find ways of threading sustainable development and climate action, particularly mitigation, in the same needle to leverage climate action.
Bringing together 200 experts from some 60 countries, the session will be held from 1- 5 May 2017 in Addis Ababa to draft the outline of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC, which, according to Ms. Denton, should support African countries in their developmental trajectories.
