This is a segment of an infographic I designed for a presentation in a climate change summit ''The Central Challenges of Environmental Sustainability in Developing Countries, Environmental Education''
The infographic depicts the need to achieve sustainable development by promoting sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth, creating greater opportunities for all, reducing inequalities, raising basic standards of living, fostering equitable social development and inclusion, and promoting integrated and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems that supports, inter alia, economic, social and human development while facilitating ecosystem conservation, regeneration and restoration and resilience in the face of new and emerging challenges.
I have also quoted the Copenhagen speech of late PM Meles Zenawi:
''We will never accept any global deal that does not limit global warming to the minimum unavoidable level, no matter what levels of compensation and assistance are promised to us… While we will reason with everyone to achieve our objective, we will not rubber stamp an agreement by the powers that be as the best we could get for the moment. We will use our numbers to delegitimize any agreement that is not consistent with our minimal position. If needs be we are prepared to walk out of any negotiations that threaten to be another rape of our continent.’’ Meles Zenawi.
The Copenhagen conference had drew together 170 countries in the Danish capital to negotiate new commitments to reductions in GHGs emissions after 2012, the expiry date for the Kyoto Protocol.
Meles charged at the Western countries taking into account that the poorest countries on the planet including Malawi produce just a mere fraction of GHGs, which are the prime cause of global warming and climate change disturbances that ensue.
It is however, the same poor countries who are already-and who will be at an even greater extent in the future-the main victims, forced to endure more frequent and intense incidences of extreme weather conditions such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, mudslides and rising sea levels.
On the other hand rich developed countries on the globe according to the World Bank are responsible for 64 percent of GHGs emissions since 1850, would only bear 20 percent of the consequences while poor developing countries, which caused just 2 percent of these emissions pay 80 percent of the price.
“The damage caused to the economies of the world’s poor countries will be ten times greater than that inflicted on developed nations,” said UN Economic and Social Affairs Director Rob Vos then.
which countries are the biggest recipients of the climate change aid?
The Copenhagen conference had drew together 170 countries in the Danish capital to negotiate new commitments to reductions in GHGs emissions after 2012, the expiry date for the Kyoto Protocol.
Meles charged at the Western countries taking into account that the poorest countries on the planet including Malawi produce just a mere fraction of GHGs, which are the prime cause of global warming and climate change disturbances that ensue.
It is however, the same poor countries who are already-and who will be at an even greater extent in the future-the main victims, forced to endure more frequent and intense incidences of extreme weather conditions such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, mudslides and rising sea levels.
On the other hand rich developed countries on the globe according to the World Bank are responsible for 64 percent of GHGs emissions since 1850, would only bear 20 percent of the consequences while poor developing countries, which caused just 2 percent of these emissions pay 80 percent of the price.
“The damage caused to the economies of the world’s poor countries will be ten times greater than that inflicted on developed nations,” said UN Economic and Social Affairs Director Rob Vos then.
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