Ministers and delegates from several countries have underscored the urgency to move to the implementation of all the previous resolutions made during the last meeting to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
The ministers made the demand at the 13th Petersberg Climate Dialogue which began this Monday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin and is expected to pave the way for a successful global climate conference in Egypt in November.
In the previous resolution, the fight against climate change requires the preservation of the Congo Basin forests, which alone absorb 1.2 billion tons of carbon globally per year.
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Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Eve Bazaiba Masudi said during the dialogue that “we live in the forest and live from the forest and that if nothing is done to give the alternative to access to health care, we will take our stems, leaves and roots to heal ourselves”.
“If nothing is done about the alternative to education, we will be forced to continually cut down a large amount of wood to make frames, benches and everything,” added Masudi.
She maintained that adaptation to climate change has a cost, hence the need to mobilize climate finance.
Also speaking, Augustine Njamnshi from the Pan-African climate justice alliance said “Climate finance should be adaptation and mitigation 50/50 but when you look at 46 billion out of 682 billion, you know that is not half and is very very unfair”.
Story was adapted from africanews.w
