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Philip Jakpor, head of media and campaigns at Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth in Nigeria (ERA / FoEN), said: "The range of groups aligned with the industry of Fossil fuels participating in the African Climate Week leaves little hope to the African continent. carries the heavy burden of climate change. The peoples affected on the continent have repeatedly said that the global fight against climate change is based primarily on non-market mechanisms and not on the commodification of the environment. "
Labram Musah, director of programs for the Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), added that African delegates needed to defend the interests of their people during a campaign to address what is now called climatic chaos.
"Apart from the African delegates defending their peoples and taking the necessary measures to combat climate chaos, the big polluters and their allies will introduce dangerous proposals during the Climate Week negotiations to enable them to dictate the results of the climate change. COP25. "
The groups urged African delegates to stand by the affected peoples of the African continent and around the world who recommend the following measures to address the climate change crisis:
Keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Rejection of false solutions that move real solutions and first of all towards the climate crisis.
Advance real solutions that are right, achievable and essential.
Respect climate finance obligations to developing countries.
Put an end to corporate interference in climate negotiations and seize them.
The African Climate Week (CAW) 2019 will take place in the run-up to the UN Secretary-General's Climate Summit in September 2019, bringing together various stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
The event will be followed by climate weeks in Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific. Together, the Climate Weeks will serve as a key springboard for the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit scheduled for September 2019 in New York.
Key partners in this week-long event include the Marrakesh Partnership, the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the West African Development Bank, and the Climate Technology Center and Network ( CTCN), among others.
The global partners of the event are the UNFCCC, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Partnership between UNEP and the United Nations Environment Program. the Technical University of Denmark (UNEP-DTU Partnership), the Center and the Climate Technology Network (CRTC) and the International Association for Emissions Trading (IETA). Regional partners include the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Africa, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Pacific (ESCAP) in Asia-Pacific.
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