Le continent invité à développer “un réflexe d’intégration” pour prévenir le changement climatique

Genève (Suisse), 24 mars (APS) – L’Afrique doit développer davantage ‘’un réflexe d’intégration’’ devant lui permettre de mieux gérer les effets néfastes du changement climatique, a soutenu Alioune Ndiaye, directeur pour la région Afrique de l’Organisation mondiale de la météorologie (OMM) dont le siège est à Genève, en Suisse.

Kenya to host regional Climate Centre

At a glance
-Africa has established African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology as a high level mechanism  for development of met services in the region.
-African Ministers and technocrats responsible for meteorology are meeting for the first time in Nairobi to devise climate mitigation strategies against extreme weather conditions.
-Climate change is a global concern with human activities leading to increasing global warming that is changing climate patterns around the world.

A drying Lake in Elementaita (Pictures By Ernest Waititu)

A young boy shows flowers, made from feathers shed by flamingos, he sells to tourists who visit Lake Naivasha. With the receding lake, the flamingos have decreased, the number tourists have declined and business is low.

David Kariuki points to the distance, hundreds of metres away, where the lake reached when he first settled in the area.

David Kariuki (at the front partly hidden ), a tour guide in the lake, guides journalists across a soggy section of the receding lake.

First Meteorology Conference in Africa kicks off in Nairobi

 BY JAMES RATEMO IN NAIROBI, KENYA

 Africa risks destructive natural disasters unless it ups its weather forecasting and metorological services to facilitate an early warning system to avert tragedies.

Climate change tracking can save lifes

 

Climate change experts have also warned that Africa may not feed it self unless it adopts new agricultural methods and technologies in line with climate change, which is currently a global concern.

WCC3 YOUTH DECLARATION

Climate change is widely accepted as the one of the greatest challenges facing human kind and the earth on which we exist. From biodiversity and natural resource management, to health, education and equality, global climate change is not only making the current problems we face worse, but is creating new challenges for mankind.

Long-term Ecology Versus Short-Term Politics ?

Presentation by Someshwar Singh, Director of Communications, Green Cross International

Before I begin, I would just like to give you a brief introduction about myself. I started by career as an economic journalist in India. I worked with newspaper, magazine and then news agency and for television. And then I have reported internationally from Geneva. Now I am with the Green Cross International, which is based here in Geneva. Also worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature, not far from here, for over 7 years. 

In my presentation today, what I would like to do is present the systemic forces which kind of trap and confine and therefore constrain the short-term politics which in turn defines the way we live, especially the way our production, distribution and transport infrastructure is organised. Linked to this is our grand appetite to reach the heights of consumerism – which left to itself – is very difficult to draw limits on.  Yet all around you see today a silent and unmistakeable change that has started – first, of course with the thinking but it is being followed up with actions as well albeit slowly and in a disjointed way.  What we are waking up to is the realisation that perhaps we have crossed the limits in consistently not being in harmony with the long-term ecological processes.