Climate Change and Natural Resource Management: News

Three African leaders yesterday launched the Africa Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference. The conference, also known more technically as the Seventeenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The CAHOSCC meeting will consider the key messages reviewed and refined by the Special Session of AMCEN in Mali 2011 and deliberate on the state of play of the global climate change negotiations and chart strategies at CoP17/CMP7.

The Commission of the African Union, in preparation for the COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, solicits articles for publication to be exhibited in the African Pavilion in the African Union Policy Journal: ECOLOGUE.

The decision by Japan not to commit to the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 has rattled the African Group at the Cancun climate change conference.