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LEAD Africa publication on African leadership and Climate Change: 'Leading the way'
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Oct 13th, 2009 - 09:37:46 |
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Dear all,
LEAD Africa, supported by the Royal Danish Embassy and COP 15, has
just released a new report Leading the way: A role for regional
institutions around African leadership on climate change that can be
downloaded at our website:
www.leadinafrica.org
Executive Summary
Leadership is critical to addressing the challenges and opportunities
posed by climate change. The onset of climate impacts combined with
new policy frameworks and funding mechanisms require the building of
institutional and human capacity, the strengthening of governance and
provision of an enabling environment for climate action. This is
especially true for Africa, because of its unique vulnerability to
climate impacts, its low resilience and its climate-dependent economic
sectors. Whilst Africa is clearly in peril, climate change also
provides a unique opportunity to forge a new more sustainable and
socially equitable developmental pathway. But this will need strong
and visionary leadership, and particularly African leadership as
opposed to our historic reliance on external agencies and bi-lateral
partners to set the development agenda.
In recognition of this, LEAD Africa and ENDA Energy have begun to look
at leadership on climate issues in Africa as part of our wider
environment and development agenda. We are especially concerned with
looking at the regional and sub-regional levels, as climatic responses
by their very nature are trans-national and highly complex. Although
this level of leadership in Africa has also historically been the
weakest, we believe it can become a critical leverage point for
leadership on climate issues in particular.
The potential of African institutions to provide leadership on climate
issues, their unique responsibilities and their ability to act as
climate response catalysts was the subject of a recent workshop on
African Leadership on Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
for Regional Institutions, held in Tunis in January 2009.
This paper is based on the discussions at the workshop and aims to
highlight to a wider audience the urgent need for African Leadership
on Climate Change, particularly at the regional level. It begins with
an overview of the current situation vis a vis leadership on climate
issues in Africa, then highlights opportunities to show leadership on
climate issues, before finally summarizing recommendations from the
workshop on how regional institutions can become climate leaders.
For further information around LEAD Africa activities around African
leadership and climate change, please see our website
(www.leadinafrica.org).
Best Regards
Masse LO
LEAD Africa Coordinator
Tel: 00221 33 889 3430
mass.lo (at) leadfrancophoneafrica.org
54, Rue Carnot
BP 3370
Dakar Senegal
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Bhuwan K.C.
Member, Global Youth Advisory Panel (GYAP) of United Nations Population Fund
Country Leader, YES Campaign (www.yesweb.org)
Board, Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) (www.ayon.org)
General Secretary, Youth Engagement in Sustainability (www.yes.org.np)
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