AFRICAN LEADERS are preparing for a major conference in Kenya which will discuss the climate change challenges that face the continent.
The continent is responsible for just 3.9 percent of global CO2 emissions but faces disproportionate impact of climate change caused largely by the industrial West.
Emissions from Africa have been falling steadily since 2006 and is less than half that of the European Union despite having almost twice the population.
Climate change experts and environment campaigners will join senior government officials in Nairobi for this year’s Africa Climate Week (ACW 2023) which begins on September 4,
The event will focus on how African countries can collaborate and find solutions to the problems that climate change is causing for the continent.
Kenya will also host the Africa Climate Summit which will take place alongside ACW 2023 and a pre-event, the 11th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-XI) organised by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on September 1 and 2.
It is understood that the Africa Climate Summit will produce the ‘Nairobi Declaration on Green Growth and Climate Finance’ to drive action among African Union member states and partners leading up to the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP 28) in November.
This week a regional summit on health and climate change was held in Malawi ahead of ACW 2023 to discuss the effects of climate change on the health care systems of many of the continent’s countries.
Delegates at the Regional Summit on Health and Climate Change for the African Region called for African leaders to adopt a unified African position on tackling the negative effects of climate change on health sectors.
Speaking at the event Malawi’s Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda stressed the negative impact that climate had on health services and other sectors and highlighted the need for collaboration among member states to address the issues.
Also addressing summit delegates, Ishmael Nyasulu from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity today as it threatens the essential ingredients of good health and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health.
Nyasulu said: “Having responded to multiple climate change health related events, WHO is aware that without assistance to prepare and respond, weak health systems as is the case in most in developing countries will be the least able to cope with effects of climate change on health,”
Africa’s extreme vulnerability to climate change means that things such as agriculture, food security, water resources, and ecosystems are at serious risk.
Experts say that Africa’s rapid warming threatens to make large swaths of the continent uninhabitable. According to recent research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change millions of Africans are already feeling the effects of climate change, such as heat stress, harsh weather, and the spread of disease.
In the wake of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, African countries struggle to raise the money they need to address climate change issues.
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, said recently that the continent will need $2.7 trillion until 2030 to address climate issues.
However, Africa receives only 3% of global climate money, with the lowest percentage ever coming from the private sector (14%). Adesina said immediate action was needed to help increase private sector participation in climate finance.
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If African-heritage people knew, and were familiar with their ancestors 3,000-year African Pharaonic Nile Civilisation, Africans people today, would know the weather; climate, rivers, and the oceans change, on Planet Earth, without the assistance of mankind.
When the African Pharaonic Nile Valley Civilisation, responsible for the sphinx-with the depiction of a Bantu African woman’s facial features, the region was a green savannah; which supported a range of wildlife, including elephants: hippos, and lions.
Today, the region is an arid desert.
Since the craving of an African woman on the Sphinx, by the African Pharaonic Nile Valley Civilisation, the climate has utterly changed, without the assistance of mankind.
Moreover, skeletons of large whales have been discovered in the Sahara Desert.
Africa’s leading people would do well to address the reasons why African people remain in abject poverty, on the wealthiest continent on Planet Earth; rather than filling our heads with the concerns of western Caucasian people’s latest climate theory.
Africa’s leading men, and women would do well to leave the “climate-change” creed, to the Green Apostles of western Caucasian Europe.
Europe can afford to destroy its manufacturing, and privately owned vehicles, and Gas-cookers, and wood-burners, and central heating, and its coal-power electric production, and force its citizens back to horse-and-cart as the only acceptable transportation.
Africans must robustly resist, and reject the “green” creed promoted by Western Caucasian governments, and politically motivated people.
Morever, Africa’s governments, and leading people, should be concentrating on solving the mystery of why most African people continue to live in poverty, on the wealthiest continent on Planet Earth.
Instead of African people always talking about Caucasian people’s “climate-change;” with the Green’s anti-manufacturing, anti-car, anti-aeroplane, anti-log burners, anti-gas cookers, anti-carbon demands, which if implemented by the government of Africa, will keep Africa, and Africans in abject poverty, and in the stone-age for the foreseeable future.
Africa’s Elected Government Ministers need to abolish the Trade Terms, with western Caucasian European political Institutions; Trade Deals, which perpetually keeps Africans in poverty; and perpetual servitude to the West.