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De:	Kenneth Amoateng [ Profil ]
Sujet:	PRESS STATEMENT
Envoyé:	Jul 9th, 2009 - 14:41:23

	PRESS STATEMENT BY PAN AFRICAN CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE(PACJA) African Civil Society on Climate Change urges Obama to work for Climate Justice We, the African civil society under the auspices of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance are delighted that President Obama is visiting Africa, trasitioning from the G8 meeting. The arrival of President Obama coming from a meeting of the most powerful economies is symbolic in our view as we would urge the US to take climate change crisis with equal enthusiasm as they are taking the prevailing economic crisis, in addition to acting according to their historical responsibility and economic capacity to ensure a fair and effective climate deal in Copenhagen later this year. Climate change and global poverty are key global justice challenges of our times, and Africa is the region on earth most deeply and widely affected. It is mainly the poor who are most adversely affected by climate change, which now threatens to make poverty permanent and erasing the progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals over the past years. The two challenges must be tackled at the same time in order to achieve global justice and sustainable development. As President Obama makes his first official trip to Sub-Saharan Africa, the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance urges the President to put climate justice his highest priority for the next coming months to ensure a fair and effective climate deal when the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Copenhagen in December this year. It is very positive that President Obama has understood that greening the economy is the way forward to create prosperity and reduce emissions. But the US must make efforts that correspond to their historic responsibility and economic capacity in order to work together with Africa and to ensure Climate Justice, says the Coalition of NGO's on Climate Change representing PACJA in Ghana AN AVERAGE AMERICA CAN AFFORD 3 MEALS A DAY BUT OBAMA SHOULD REFLECT: Cattle nomad in his father’s birth place Kenya who cannot have enough water for his animals;Rice farmer has lost his farmland to floods and been forced to leave habitat; old mother in African prepares her planting grain has to wait at her door step wondering when rain will come.People are suffering because America and other injured our environment For more information please contact: Ghana coordinators: Charles Agboklu +233 244 6167 68 or Hon. Fusseini, +233 24 3148299, George Awudi+\|233-277432014, Ken Amoateng +233-244023651 Mtithika Mwenda, Coordinator of PACJA, based in Nairobi: +254 724 403 555 www.pacja.org "when the voice of the people become so loud the government has no alternative but to listen" Martin Luther King Jnr. Kenneth Nana Amoateng Abibimman Foundation Ghana National Youth Coalition on Climate Change ( GNYCCC) P.O.BOX BT 1 Tema Flat 1/A 74 Site 3 (OPP T.DC),Commmunit 1 Tel# 022213918

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