ECOWAS environment ministers adopt regional climate strategy
A fisherman on the Grand Lahou strip of land, which is constantly shrinking due to coastal erosion.
A few thousand fishermen still live on the thin strip of land, wedged between the Atlantic and the Tadio lagoon, on the Ivorian coast.
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Developed by the Commission of the West African organization, with the technical and financial support of the European Union, this framework will enable West African States to achieve the objectives they have set themselves since the Paris Agreement, and to better coordinate their climate action at the regional level.
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Acting together within the framework of regional solidarity has become an absolute necessity, believes the ECOWAS commission, to enable the West African region to reduce its vulnerability to climate change but also to limit its greenhouse gas emissions. in the future.
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ECOWAS does not replace the States which will need nearly 300 billion dollars by 2030 to achieve their climate objectives.
But it will mobilize $115 million to ensure that climate is at the center of its action in all sectors and that member states exchange their good environmental practices.
Implementation of regional weather warning tools such as Hydromet, research on coastal erosion or on the health impacts of global warming, ECOWAS will also encourage in this adaptation component regional dialogue on infrastructure, water resources, resizing of hydroelectric dams, or the evolution of transhumance routes.
In the mitigation section, the regional Climate strategy aims to promote energy efficiency, develop renewable energies, but also the use of gas in transport, and restore forest cover and degraded land through centers of excellence.
The Malian Sekou Sangare led the work on the regional climate strategy as commissioner for agriculture, environment and water resources at the ECOWAS Commission.
In his view, agriculture is the priority sector for West African climate action.
The large sector of agriculture, livestock, fishing, the preservation of forests and the questions of water resources constitute an extremely important area in which we are going to invest more.
Sekou Sangare, commissioner at ECOWAS
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