Dr. Jailan Ashraf said Africa Climate Week ACW 2022 is an important gathering ahead of the UN climate change conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh
Dr. Jailan Ashraf, Former Dean of Mass Media and Information Technology Faculty, said Africa Climate Week ACW 2022 slated to run from 29 August to 2 September in Gabon is an important gathering ahead of the UN climate change conference (COP27) scheduled for next November in Sharm el-Sheikh.
In a phone call with (Africa Today), Sharaf referred to a report entitled “African economic outlook 2022”; the report mentioned an important information that the continent’s additional financing is estimated at 432 billion dollars and the continent is losing between 5 to15 percent of gross domestic products to climate change. Africa received between the year 2016-2019 donations about 18.3 billion dollars which means that we have a gap in climate finance from 2020 to 2030.
”We are facing a disaster,” she said, claiming that to fight climate change we should have effective planning to avoid forest degradation, develop renewable energy, and limit the expansion of fuel fired power plants.
She mentioned that experts have put four dimensions for food security according to climate change which are food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food system stability. Climate change, she added, will have an impact on human health livelihood assets, food production, and also distribution channels as well as changing the purchasing power and market flows.
The experts are looking for how to manage genetics resources investing in resilient agricultural development and finally enhance market and trade contribution to stability of food security. Thus, she believed that there are many plans and all the leaders all over the world knew well that we are facing a disaster that needs a quick movement.
Finally, Dr. Sharaf assumed that in the COP27 gathering, we will have solutions especially for Africa and for other countries, expressing hope that the green economy will be more effective as it is “booming” in the economy. “We are going to have a set of resolutions and solutions for all the climate change problems where all the developed countries help the African continent by donating money to face this problem,” she said.
It is noteworthy to mention that Foreign Minister and president-designate of COP27 Sameh Shoukry stressed in his speech that although Africa’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is low, its remains unfortunately the most vulnerable continent and requires to spend a huge financial resources to adapt to climate change impacts in different sectors as energy, water, and agriculture encouraging different African voices to call for equitable climate change action.
Africa Today is aired on Nile TV International. This episode is conducted by Mahisty Rabie.
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