Glasgow Climate Conference : Cameroon, Partners Review National Response Plan

After the historic 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is looking forward to another appointment to fine-tune efforts at tackling climate change impact. Thus, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, holds in Glasgow, Scotland from November 1-12, 2021. In preparation for the event, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development, MINEPDED, the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP Cameroon and partners on May 27, 2021 began holding a two-day workshop in Yaounde to review Cameroon’s Envisaged National Contributions or climate change response plan. 
Speaking at the opening, Alassane Ba, UNDP Cameroon Deputy Resident Representative cited the Cameroon Climate Change Observatory as reporting that the years 2019 and 2020 saw rising temperatures negatively impacting agriculture, transport and livestock. Failure to tackle the impact of floods could cost Cameroon 3 Billion US Dollars (about 1,614.5 billion FCFA) a year. While droughts could cost an estimated 7.4 billion US Dollars (about 3,983.1 billion FCFA) a year, Ba warned.
Prof. Tchawa Paul, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development, explained that Envisaged National Contributions will enable Cameroon to align development projects with financing windows. He said an estimated 30,000 billion FCFA (about 55.7 Million US Dollars) was needed to appropriately redress climate change impact. “The fact that the United States has rej...