By Beecham Okwere David |East African Legislative Assembly Members of Parliament Candidate,EAC Youth Ambassador & A Member of the Mandela Young African leaders Intitiave ( YALI)
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22nd November 2016|KAMPALA-UGANDA
Climate change impacts vary between different places, gender, age and class. Africa, though being the least contributors to the global climate change emissions, is the most vulnerable to climate change impacts due to poverty, high dependency to rain fed agriculture, deforestation, weak governance systems, technological and poor infrastructural development, population growth, environmental degradation, persistent conflicts and more importantly weak adaptive capacities to the impacts of climate change.
East Africa is one of the most volatile regions in the continent with a total population of over 327 million, which is about 5.15 per cent of the global population.
Further, the effects of climate change are not equally felt across the populations and studies have shown that they disproportionately affect women.
Emerging issues from discussions and General Observations.Among many others this are some of my partinent observations on this matter;
Efforts to adapt to the changing climate are intricately linked to the broader challenges of sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and natural resources
management.
Domestication of international frameworks (UNFCCC and others) must be implemented at national and local levels.
All stakeholders must participate in addressing the challenge posed by climate change and natural disasters;
Risk Reduction provides excellent opportunities for building community resilience and building adaptive capacity to Climate Change, and it can be considered as the first line of defence while building long-term adaptation strategies.
The main emerging issues and key players must include;
Members of Parliament, EAC Youth Ambassadors and all Youth Leaders in EAC have a role in reducing impacts of climate change and its closely linked disasters in the region which have been a cause of most problems, this can be done through advocacy and awareness creation.
Sustainable development must recognize specific gender role in mitigating climate change and reducing its effects.
Information available is not disseminated and women are not adequately empowered, thus the need for building more capacity for women and men to be able to deal with the effects of climate change and to build resilience.
In order to ensure sustainable development, Partner States should target both women and Men for Us to have a more brighter future
Thanks very much for your Attention.
Beecham Okwere David
East African Legislative Assembly Members of Parliament Candidate,EAC Youth Ambassador & A Member of the Mandela Young African leaders Intitiave ( YALI)
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