Vision
- To reduce climate change impacts and enhance community resilience
- Enhance access to rural energy and empower rural populations,
- Leading to increased agricultural productivity and improved food security
Goal
A post-2012 climate change framework that:
- acknowledges Africa's current efforts
- rewards its future climate change mitigation in agriculture, forestry and other land-uses
- promotes adaptation
Objective
To call for release of funding for research and the development of demonstration activities to enhance learning and ensure that agriculture/forestry/land use activities are rewarded and eligible for funding in the international post-2012 framework.
Principle
- Africa reaffirms its commitment to climate change mitigation
- Initiative advanced and driven by African leadership
- Reflects African realities and priorities - poverty reduction and community benefits
- Builds on existing African institutions and frameworks (e.g. NEPAD - CAADP, EAP and TerrAfrica)
- Establishes stronger linkages between climate change and global environmental conventions such as the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - country processes, Kyoto conventions, etc
- Avoids duplication and builds on existing African led initiatives
Major challenges in Africa
- Food Insecurity
- Energy Crisis
- Water
- Diseases
- Climate Change
Using forest systems to sustain Africa's livelihoods
Forest systems include:
- Forest-agriculture lands - where forest management cannot compete with agriculture
- Forest buffer zones - where:
- pressures for deforestation are high
- control is insecure or in conflict
- Standing forests - where:
- there are large tracts of high-density forest
- there are few inhabitants
- there is pressure on timber resources
Africa's strategy a REDD-AFOLU coalition
- Africa promotes REDD - the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by forest sources
- Africa promotes AFOLU - carbon sequestration through agriculture, forestry and land use
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