By
Kofi Adu Domfeh
DAKAR, Senegal - The Senegalese
government has hailed the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) for its
excellent tool of environmental protection and urged them to continue the
struggle for climate justice.
Ms.
Penda Kante Thiam who represented the Senegalese Minister for Environment urged
the African Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) under the auspices of PACJA to
keep the faith and to be positive in the struggle for climate justice.
Officiating
the opening of a five-day Post-Warsaw strategic meeting in Dakar, Ms. Penda
Kante said, “We need you as much as you need us. I believe change starts now
and starts with us. We definitely need to lead by example.”
PACJA
Secretary General, Mithika Mwenda called on Civil Society Organizations in
Africa to be visible at the national level, to be consistence with national
aspirations and to work together with their governments to achieve their
objectives.
“It
remains the mandate of PACJA to provide an enabling environment for African
Civil Societies to share experiences and networks so as to effectively
contribute into the national and international climate change debates,” he
added.
Mr.
Mouhamet Lamine Ndiaye who represented Oxfam at the meeting said “Oxfam will be
focusing on the linkages between climate change and its impact on agricultural
production and productivity”.
“We
are at Oxfam are hopeful that this meeting will conclude with a clear strategy
on climate change in relations to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs),” he charged.
The
meeting has drawn 80 participants from 40 African countries with a mandate to
construct a unified regional campaign strategy on climate justice.
Mr.
Augustine Njamnshi, the PACJA Technical and Political Affairs Chairperson and
Ms. Azeb Girmai of the Least Developed Countries Watch - Ethiopia while
deliberating at this event said “Africa CSOs on climate justice needs massive
and innovative mobilization strategy for advocacy and lobbying towards 2015”.
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