Chakwera drums up support for poor countries agendas
President Lazarus Chakwera has asked all Least Developed Country (LDC) in the world to jointly work together in promoting their agendas.
The President, who is the chairperson of the LDCs, said this yesterday during the opening of the 27th Conference of the Parties (CoP27) currently underway in Egypt.
Chakwera observed that it is an indisputable fact that LDCs’ contribution to global warming is minimal, yet they bear the huge impact of climate change.
He said: “We also know that the flow of climate change finance from the nations most responsible for causing it is too slow and insufficient to keep pace with the worsening climate change impacts, not say anything of the fact that the proportion allocated to adaptation is inadequate.
“But these shortcomings are all the more reason why it is important for the LDCs around the world to have joint and coordinated efforts at promoting the LDC agenda.”
Among the LDC’s agendas include addressing climate change, negotiating trade policy in the World Trade Organisation, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting the LDC programme of action to support the LDCs’ graduation out of the LDC category.
In his speech, United Nations secretary general António Guterres warned that the climate crisis has deteriorated and that humanity is now on “a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator”.
“The clock is ticking. We are in the fight of our lives. And we are losing. Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible,” he said.
CoP 27 is, among others, seeking to catalyse climate finance and investment flows to the projects needed to reduce emissions in Africa.
