http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Rx2ALxQQE
Empower youth inclusion in these
processes and involve them in the decisions making during high level meetings
of UNFCCC. With my ability to communicate effectively to lobbying politicians
and climate negotiators and influence their decision at the global level to
save our planet by supporting global campaigns and Raise support for our local
actions.
Climate Justice
The
issue took on new prominence when Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines just
days
before the conference, when death and destruction brought by the Philippines
storm helped to highlight the question of “climate justice at COP 19 in Warsaw
Delegates agreed to the broad
outlines of a proposed system for pledging emissions cuts
and gave their support for a new treaty mechanism to tackle the human cost of
rising seas, floods, stronger storms and other expected effects of global
warming.
As
a window on the two years leading to Paris, the Warsaw meeting underscored the
tremendous distance still to be covered on core issues such as the legal
character of a new agreement and the differentiation of developed and
developing country obligations. The hard-fought outcome effectively preserved
the vague but delicate balance struck on those issues two years earlier in
Durban. The one significant new substantive element
was the indication that countries’ individual contributions to the Paris
agreement will be “nationally determined.”
The debate,
however, did reveal shifts in countries’ historic positioning. The United
States and the European Union were more closely aligned than in the past in
their visions of a global climate deal. And the once strongly unified Group of
77/China showed growing rifts, with many smaller developing countries showing
greater flexibility than major powers like China, India, and Brazil.
Expectations
will be much higher next year, with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
convening a leaders summit in September to build political momentum going into
COP 20 in December in Lima, where parties are to begin drafting the Paris
agreement.
The other major issues in
Warsaw
were demands from developing countries for increased climate finance, and for a
new mechanism to help especially vulnerable nations cope with unavoidable “loss
and damage” resulting from climate change. Countries had agreed a year earlier
to address “loss and damage”
Developed
countries, which had previously promised to mobilize a
total of $100 billion a year by 2020, refused to set a quantified interim goal
for ramping up climate finance. And the new “Warsaw international mechanism for
loss and damage associated with climate change impacts” fell well short of what
vulnerable countries wanted. It establishes a new forum to provide information
and expertise, and to consider further steps, but makes no promise of
additional funding.
Developed countries did agree
to begin submitting new biennial reports outlining
their strategies for scaling up climate finance. And to ensure continued
high-level attention to the issue, the COP decided to convene a biennial
ministerial dialogue on climate finance running from 2014 to 2020. The COP also
concluded arrangements with, and provided initial guidance to, the new Green
Climate Fund launched in Cancún.
On finance, there
is as yet a clear position on how climate change should be financed. Developed
countries are consistently pushing for private finance as the means of
supporting adaptation mitigation initiatives. The US for example talked about
launching a process outside the UNFCCC to leverage the private sector for
climate finance. Meanwhile, China and G77 see this move as mischievous given
that
private financing is highly likely to result in climate finance being tired to
carbon markets thus compelling developing countries to continue to mitigate
climate change on behalf of the developed countries whose historical and
current development paths are largely to blame for the onset of climate change.
Till date,
what is on the climate finance table is a bunch of pledges from some developed
countries including Germany which has pledged €30million for the Least
Developed Countries’ Fund (LDCF) and €50million for the Special Climate Fund .
While this is encouraging, without a legal backing for these pledges, these
countries are not compelled to fulfill them. Also more important is the fact
that the sources of these pledges are not known; are they going to come from
private or public sources. Even more worrisome is the fact that compared to the
developed countries’ earlier commitment of up to a $100million per year (from
Doha), the €30million may well be just a drop in the ocean. It is worth noting
also that an estimated $1000,000 per year is required to tackle climate change
at the current emission levels.
Agriculture is
undoubtedly the most important sector in the economies of most non-oil
exporting African countries. It constitutes approximately 30% of Africa’s GDP
and contributes about 50% of the total export value, with 70% of the
continent’s population depending on the sector for their livelihood. Production
is subsistence in nature with a high dependence on the rain except for South
Africa with a high commercial base. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), 75-250 million people will face severe water stress by
2020 and 350-600 million people by the 2050.
Norway announced a pledge of
US$ 40 million to continue support for the UN-REDD Programme
At
the 19th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties
(COP19), The Government of Norway announced a pledge of US$ 40 million to
continue support for the UN-REDD Programme. The package of funding will support
a range of programmes in 2014 to reduce deforestation and forest degradation
(REDD+) across 48 UN-REDD partner countries, in collaboration with governments,
indigenous peoples and civil society, and with the joint support of FAO, UNDP
and UNEP
My lesson
learning in COP 19 is same like last year when I have attended the COP 18, 17
and 15: youth participation in high level decisions making processes in relation
with keyisions development issues like climate change is facing lack of funding
and preparation processes
We
should not see the filth engulfing us as a misfortune which can never be
reversed but rather as an opportunity to generate
employment, biogas, organic farming and a whole range of environmentally
sustainable activities,
We called on all Metropolitan, Municipal and
District Assemblies, to mainstream climate change and gender issues in their
planning process in order to find answers to the environmental problems and the
sad condition of the vulnerable in the society.
Secondly I have learnt that good
leadership skills are very important when we are looking to get
involved multi-stakeholders or
Governments in a decision that could even affect their own interests
My work is not ending after COP19. I
will continue to be active within my organization and other
youth networks I’m part of through
the non formal educational activities we are planning as well as political
lobby to encourage decision makers integrating sustainable development into development
policies in Cameroon and worldwide. Those campaigns will focus education for sustainable
development, mutual understanding within climate crisis and green jobs creation
Before
you make a decision that affects the Ghanaian Youth imagine the eyes of seven
generations of children in the future looking at you, and asking … Why?”
"Treat
the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you
by your children. We don’t Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It
from Our Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Rx2ALxQQE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Rx2ALxQQE
Kenneth
Nana Amoateng
Chief Executive Officer
Abiimman
Foundation
www.abibimmanfoundation.org/Email:amoatengken@gmail.com/kamoateng@iday.org/
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