ClimateChangeandSustainableDevelopment

March 3 is celebrated every year as Africa Environment Day. This emanated from 2000 Durban Summit of the then OUA as a way of creating awareness about the environmental issues and the challenges facing the continent.

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 AUC, through the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture, hosted the Meeting of the CAHOSCC today Wednesday 16 November 2011, at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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.

Acting Oil Minister Ali Ahmed Osman yesterday pledged to enforce all proposals of environment protection workshop, adding that his ministry has provided a good example in environment protection and providing services.

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.