Africa should handle relationship between pure sources, local weather change
Dr Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University, Institute of Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), stated Africa should handle the connection between pure sources and local weather change to attain sustainability.
She stated managing Africa’s pure sources was a fragile balancing act, involving the necessity to deal with instant vulnerabilities whereas additionally contemplating future situations.
Dr Denton was talking on the opening ceremony of the Natural Resource Management Leadership for Climate Change (NATURELEAD) Course by the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) and the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in Accra.
The Course goals to equip African establishments with the data, expertise, and instruments essential to navigate the complicated intersections between pure useful resource administration, local weather change, and financial growth.
It addresses world challenges like sustainable vitality, meals safety, water administration, and biodiversity conservation, whereas emphasizing the significance of local weather diplomacy and governance in driving sustainable growth.
The contributors had been drawn from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Liberia, to signify West African Anglophone international locations.
Dr Denton stated efficient useful resource administration may foster financial development, sustainable growth, and innovation, together with the shift to a inexperienced economic system, whereas additionally addressing challenges like local weather change, useful resource depletion, and altering world calls for.
She stated Africa should discover a technique to stability these challenges whereas securing a resilient and affluent future for its folks.
The Director stated the world was dealing with a number of world crises that posed vital threats to the African continent such that amongst these, battle and local weather change stand out as significantly devastating.
She stated local weather change was accelerating, resulting in extra frequent pure disasters, rising sea ranges, and strain on ecosystems.
“Countries like the DRC, Mozambique, Ghana, and Sierra Leone are among the most vulnerable in the world,” she added.
She stated many African nations relied on revenues from hydrocarbons and minerals to help their economies, nonetheless, these programs had been fragile, threatened by the pressures of local weather change.
The Director stated for over three a long time, that they had supported African governments by embedding analysis into policy-making processes, addressing environmental and socio-economic challenges, and fostering sustainable growth.
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, stated pure sources had been the bedrock of many African economies, considerably influencing commerce, growth, and overseas direct funding.
She stated whether or not or not it’s oil, minerals, agriculture, or forests, these sources drove the expansion of countries, but local weather change posed an rising menace to those sources, endangering financial and environmental safety, and in some situations, exacerbating regional conflicts.
The Minister stated efficient pure useful resource administration methods could be pivotal for driving financial development, enhancing livelihoods, and constructing resilient socio-ecosystems.
She stated local weather change affected a number of ecosystems and international locations, making awareness-raising essential for addressing local weather safety, shared vulnerabilities, and lowering climate-induced threats at each nationwide and regional ranges.
The Minister stated the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), mixed with commerce facilitation agreements, had the potential to considerably increase intra-African commerce, improve GDP development, and promote the alternate of business and intermediate items throughout areas.
She added that this goal was aligned with the AU Agenda 2063, a strategic framework that envisioned an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient Africa that performed a robust position on the worldwide stage.
Madam Botchway stated Ghana’s overseas coverage remained targeted on selling regional integration, commerce, and growth, thus fostering simply and equitable regional and worldwide relations with neighbours and wider companions throughout the globe.
Source: GNA
