Buyah Jammeh, AfricaNews reporter in Banjul, Gambia
Momodou Kotu Cham, Secretary of State for Forestry and Environment of the Gambia, has said the most vulnerable sub-region to climate change and variability, West African countries, needs assistance to address the most pressing adaptation needs and implementing adequate adaptation measures.
The Gambian Environment minister made this statement at the opening of the ECOWAS climate change focal point preparatory meeting on the bail road map at the Paradise Suits Hotel.
According to him, development and transfer of technologies remains at the forefront as key element for crafting at future and enabling the effective implementation for ongoing action on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
He noted that there is need to clarify how financial and technological support both mitigation and more important for West Africa will be generated.
‘Despite disagreement on extending a levy to the other flexible carbon market mechanism under the Kyoto protocol, namely joint implementation and emission trading,’ he said.
Ousman Jarju, Director of Water Resources and National Focal Point for United Nation Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to the Gambia said a global challenge as unprecedented as climate change will test the humanity’s capacity to solve shared problems as never before.
Momodou B Sarr, Executive Director of National Environment Agency (NEA) said in December this year an extremely important conference of parties of the Kyoto Protocol will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, adding that numerous critical decisions will be taken regarding the post 2012 emission reduction commitments by Annex on countries under the Kyoto protocol other things.
