Fulfill commitment to funding of USD 100Billion for Action on Climate, Lobby says

Sustainability Environmental Development Watch Kenya National Coordinator Norbert Nyandire address the media today in Kisumu where stakeholders want the developed countries to fulfill the commitment they made to mobilize US Dollar 100 Billion for action on climate by the year 2020-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

 By Dickson Odhiambo.

November 28, 2019.

Fulfill commitment to funding of USD 100B for Action on Climate, Lobby says

VARIOUS stakeholders now want the developed countries to fulfill the commitment they made to mobilize US Dollar 100 Billion for action on climate by the year 2020.

Led by the Sustainable Environmental Development Watch Kenya {Suswatch Kenya} National Coordinator Norbert Nyandire, the stakeholders say this should be done as soon as possible so as to help on the issue of climate change in the developing nations.

Addressing the gathering during this year’s Regional Climate Change Campaign held in Kisumu today, Suswatch National Coordinator said the stakeholders also need equitable allocation of funds available for mitigation and adaptation under the Green Climate Fund.

Nyandire says the stakeholders would also like the various Governments to allocate climate funds that will eventually help secure the livelihoods of their citizens.

The Suswatch national coordinator also underscore the need to enhanced climate ambition by the year 2020.

“Like Greta Thunberg, we would like to tell our leaders to act on the science. There is no time for business as usual as it is not time for politicking. Our future is in our hands,” Nyandire says.

The stakeholders’ on the issue of Climate Change sentiments comes barely a few days before parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change{UNFCCC} is held this December 2 in Madrid in Spain so as to deliberate on issues affecting the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

The Organizations include Suswatch Kenya, Umande Trust, Osienala, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development, Crep Program, TaTedo among others.

Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest challenges currently but unfortunately it is fueled by human actions.

Anthropogenic factors such as acts of deforestation, unsustainable agricultural practices, excessive use of fossil fuels, all contributed by the never ending need for development has rendered the entire human population in the precarious hands of the catastrophic events resulting from a changing climate.

On November 5 this year, the Alliance of World Scientists declared a climate emergency while stating that it is untold human suffering if people do not make shifts in human activities.

The report further stated that despite 40 years of global climate negotiations, people generally conducted business as usual and have largely failed to address this predicament.

The report further gave recommendations on what needs to be done to address the present challenge while advising that there is need to replace fossil fuels with low carbon renewables and leave any remaining fossil fuels stocks in the ground.

Latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change{IPCC} reports indicate a similar worrying trend, stating the current country commitments under the historic Paris Agreement{2015} will get global temperatures to a high of three degrees Celsius.Yet the Paris Agreement seeks to limit rise of global temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-Industrial levels, while striving to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Recently, Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambique Coast and displaced thousands and many more lost their lives while the East African Countries have received unprecedented amounts of rainfall in recent times, resulting in monstrous floods affecting both urban and rural communities.

Sub-Saharan African countries experience the worst drought seasons leading to loss of lives and livelihoods.

It goes without saying that the developed countries largely contributed to climate change during the period of the Industrial Revolution, with the developing countries contributing to negligible amount to the global greenhouse gas emissions and sadly the developing countries are most impacted by its effects.

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