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Browsing Environment and Natural Resources by Author "East African Community"

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    Climate change strategy (2011-2016)
    (EAC Secretariat, 2011) East African Community
    Climate change is contemporarily the most important global environmental, social and economic challenge, predicted to have severe impacts on a planetary scale. The adverse impacts of climate change on environment, human health, food security, human settlements, economic activities, natural resources, and physical infrastructure are already noticeable world-wide. Global warming is the most stricking indication of the pronounced Climate Change issue. It is the most direct effect of the increased trapping of heat radiation. Climate science has a firm basis in physics and is supported by a wealth of evidence from real world observations. The Reports of IPCC represent the best consensus to-date on the Climate Change agenda. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the IPCC, completed in November 2007, finds with more than 90% probability that human action is implicated in today’s climate change, and presents the already observed and projected impacts it will give rise to. It is certain that increased greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from land use change lead to a warming of climate, and it is very likely that these greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of the global warming that has been taking place since the industrial revolution.
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    East African Community climate change master plan
    (East African Community, 2011) East African Community
    The East African Community Climate Change Master Plan (EACCCMP) is an outcome of a consultative and participatory process for a unified regional approach to combat climate change. It was developed by the East African Community (EAC) Partner States (Republic of Burundi, Republic of Kenya, Republic of Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania, and Republic of Uganda) with facilitation of the EAC Secretariat. The purpose of the Master Plan is to provide a long-term vision and a basis for Partner States to operationalise a comprehensive framework for adapting to and mitigating climate change in line with the EAC Protocol on Environment and Natural Resources Management and with international climate change agreements. The Master Plan ‘s Vision is to ensure that: The People, the Economies and the Ecosystems of the EAC Partner States are climate resilient and adapt accordingly to Climate Change. The Vision is aligned and consistent with EAC ‘s mandate and development priorities as articulated in a number of relevant environmental and climate change documents such as the EAC Climate Change Policy, EAC Climate Change Strategy, the EAC Protocol on Environment and Natural Resources Management and the EAC Food Security Action Plan. The overall objective of the Master-Plan is to strengthen regional cooperation to address climate change issues that concern regionally shared resources.
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    East African Community climate change policy
    (EAC Secretariat, 2011) East African Community
    The adverse impacts of climate change aggravated by the increasing average global temperatures are a threat to the livelihoods of people in almost all sectors of the economies of the EAC region. Severe droughts, floods and indeed extreme weather events associated with climatic variability phenomenon of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are occurring with greater frequency and intensity in the region. This is affecting the food security situation and threatening all the other drivers of economic development. Hence, there is a need for an integrated, harmonized and multi-sectoral framework for responding to climate change in the EAC region through the East African Community Climate Change Policy (EACCCP). In view of this, the Heads of State of the East African Community (EAC) directed the EAC Secretariat to develop a Climate Change Policy and strategies to address the adverse impacts of climate change in the region and harness any potential opportunities posed by climate change in the context of the principle of sustainable development. The overall objective of the EAC Climate Change Policy is to guide Partner States and other stakeholders on the preparation and implementation of collective measures to address Climate Change in the region while assuring sustainable social and economic development.
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    Heads of state retreat on food security and climate change, Ngurdoto mountain lodge:
    (EAC Secretariat, 2010) East African Community
    The EAC region is frequently affected by food shortages and pockets of hunger although the region as a whole has a huge potential and capacity to produce enough food for regional consumption and a large surplus for export to the world market. There are many factors leading to this state affair but the most critical are: (i) inadequate food exchange/trade between periods and/or places of abundant harvest on one hand, and those with deflict on the other; and (ii) high variability in production caused by high variability of weather which is becoming worse due to climate.
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    United Nations framework convention on climate change COP23/CMP13/CMA1.2:
    (East African Community, 2017) East African Community
    The twenty third Session of the Conference of Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and thirteenth Meeting of Parties to Kyoto Protocol (CMP13) were held from 6th to 17th November, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. The second session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA1.2) also took place in Bonn in conjunction with COP23 and CMP13. COP 23/CMP13/CMA1.2 sessions were organized by Fiji and hosted at the headquarters of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. The main purpose of the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference was to launch nations towards the next level of ambition needed to tackle global warming and put the world on a safer and more prosperous development path.
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    United Nations framework convention on climate change COP24/CMP14/CMA1.3:
    (East African Community, 2018) East African Community
    The UN Climate Change Conference was held in Katowice, Poland from 2nd to 14th December 2018. The major objective was to adopt a package of decisions to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The session also reviewed the progress made in the implementation of resolutions of COP 23/CMP13/CM1.2 and took stock on the progress of the targets agreed during previous UN Climate Change Conferences.