Des militants pour le climat d’Afrique subsaharienne se sont réunis le 16 novembre 2022 à Charm el-Sheikh, pour répondre à la ruée vers les combustibles fossiles des dirigeants africains à la 27e Conférence des Nations unies sur le climat (COP27).
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COP27: Congo demands promised funds to protect Central African forests
Congo-Brazzaville’s Environment Minister Arlette Soudan-Nonault has decided to leave the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) before the end of the negotiations. She believes that the speeches of the heads of state led to nothing and that the virtues of the Congo Basin as the lungs of the planet were not recognised at their true value.
COP27: Launch of a guide on fair climate finance
As part of the work of the 27th United Nations Climate Conference (COP27), Egypt and about 100 partners, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), have published a document on fair climate finance. The Sharm el-Sheikh Guide to Fair Climate Finance, launched on 11 November 2022, aims to help turn promises into action and strengthen the African continent’s drive for sustainable development.
COP27: deforestation among the obstacles to the +1.5°C target by 2100
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions remain at record levels in 2022. According to a study published on 11 November 2022 by the Global Carbon Project, global CO2 emissions are expected to reach 40.6 billion tonnes in 2022, leaving only a 50-50 chance of avoiding exceeding 1.5°C warming in nine years’ time. The report places deforestation in the DRC among the main drivers of global CO2 emissions.
COP27: Environmental activists’ frustration at the end of the first week
After a week of work at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), climate activists are denouncing the inaction of the governments gathered for the summit in Egypt to tackle climate change. An Egyptian symbol was attacked in a museum in Barcelona, Spain.
CAMEROON: Planète urgence launches the restoration of 1,000 hectares of mangroves
The French telecommunications group Orange and the consulting firm Sia Partners, based in Paris, France, are committed to the reforestation of mangroves in Cameroon. The two companies are financing the CAMERR project, which aims to restore 1,000 hectares of mangroves in Cameroon.
EGYPT: Ras Mohammed Reserve joins the IUCN Green List
Ras Mohammed Marine Nature Reserve, Egypt’s oldest national park, has just received the Green List certificate from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The award recognises Egypt’s efforts to protect its natural ecosystems, including coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds in the Red Sea, as it hosts the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) from 6 to 18 November 2022.
AFRICA: ENABEL receives €5m to finance climate resilient projects
The Belgian Development Agency (ENABEL) has just signed financing agreements with the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region. Of the €6 million defined by the agreements, €5 million is intended for the complementary financing of climate resilience projects in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Burundi, Rwanda and Mozambique.
GABON: One of the last strongholds of forest elephants, exposed to ivory trafficking
A suspected intermediary in the illegal ivory trade has just been arrested in Fougamou in southern Gabon. This event comes three months after the arrest in the same locality of a suspected trafficker with 12 ivory tusks. All of which attests to the fact that Gabon, considered one of the last bastions of forest elephants, remains exposed to ivory trafficking.
Protection des aires protégées du Cameroun
Rainforest Alliance produit un guide d’orientation sur les zones à haut risque de déforestation et d’empiètement. L’Ong propose des mesures pour mettre sur le marché des produits certifiés et pratiquer une agriculture à impact mineur sur les forêts.