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Originally posted at D.C. Watch

On this hot sunny Independence Day, I sit in my comfy chair and browse while this news catches my attention. And I wonder, “If it is so hot here, imagine how bad it should be in places like Africa?�

Is it really hard for one to accept that it is getting hotter each year? Are we in denial, just to defend our political ideologue?

According to a report on BBC, the Gleneagles Summit pledged:

• Help Africa “improve resilience and integrate adaptation goals into sustainable development strategies”
• Work to increase the use of renewable energy within the continent
• Strengthen the Clean Development Mechanism, a Kyoto Protocol process with the potential to help poor countries set up renewable energy facilities
• Work to tackle illegal logging
• Improve Africa’s capacity for environmental and climatic research

Under the Kyoto protocol, which preceded the Gleneagles Summit, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was designed to introduce clean energy technologies into the world’s poorer regions. Richer nations with emissions targets to meet can choose instead to invest in clean energy systems in developing countries and receive carbon credits for doing so.

Yet a year later, less than 2 percent of the 210 CDM projects registered were in Africa. With the major share going to India, China and Brazil, which provide the western world “cheap commodities and service�. Africa lacks energy technologies in areas including hydroelectric and geo-thermal sectors, promoting the continuing trend of illegal logging, inducing anthropogenic climate change.

The obvious nature of these Summits seems far more self-serving than for the common good of all. If Africa were to provide in return to the richer countries good of value (of less value to be precise), would then have been a more equitable distribution of such (CDM) projects? Africa has and continues to be the most neglected continent, politically and otherwise. What we fail to understand is that climate change is not geographically limited to Africa, failing to address ecologically issues in one area can manifest into a catastrophe elsewhere.

For the BBC report, click here.

 

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