BIG NEGOTIATING ROLE OF AFRICA IN CLIMATE AGENDA UNVEILED DURING PARLIAMENTARY DIALOGUE IN SIDELINE
- Aug 31, 2023
- 2 min read
Clive Ayuko
Nairobi, Kenya 1st September 2023
Climate change is no longer a distant threat to humanity anymore. It is with us in the form of floods, heatwaves and various other natural calamities. At present it is the biggest challenge facing humanity at the moment. Africa despite contributing minimally to the negative effects of climate change is bearing the greatest negative consequences of climate change.
China’s installed base of more than 1000GW of coal fired generating capacity is responsible for 70% of the country’s total emissions and is far away the largest of any country ( more than 4 times the installed capacity of US and India – 2nd and 3rd largest in installed capacity. A 2018 special report by the intergovernmental panel on climate change found that increases of 1.5°C is essentially inevitable and may be reached as early as 2030 with profound consequences on the continent Africa.
According to a 2021 report by the World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa will make up 86 million of the world’s 216 million Climate migrants with North Africa making up the largest share of internal climate migrants. A 2021 staff working paper on the relationship between electricity use and climate change found that Africa is above the sweet spot of comfort and Africa will sue more air conditioning. 1°C increase in the temperature will raise Sub-Saharan Africa Electricity consumption by 7%.
In a forum organized by the Government of Kenya, the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance PACJA, the Africa Climate Summit, Africa Union and the Africa Climate Legislation Initiative ACLI today at a Nairobi Hotel Chief Executive officer of the Africa Climate Summit Mr Joseph Ng’ang’a outlined what Africa has to offer in the climate agenda. These include: the Mineral resources which are essential for the development of manufacture of climate mitigating technologies, Africa has the largest Carbon Sinks in the Congo basin (314 sq Kilometres of Primary rainforest soaking up 1.2 Billion tonnes of Carbon Dioxide every year), 60 % of global arable land and the largest global renewable energy sources in the world.
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