10-12 October 2006
A West African Initiative: Benin Conference of Parliamentarians calls for Community-Based Equity in Kyoto 2
Parliamentarian Regional Sensitization Forum (PSF) on a Climate Community, where nine West and Central African Parliaments were represented, was held on 10th- 12th October 06 at the INFOSEC Cotonou Benin Republic.
The conference launched the African Parliamentarian Network for a Climate Community (APNCC) and was chaired by Honourable Rose Abunaw Makia, Deputy Speaker of the Cameroon National Assembly and Coordinator of The Environmental Caucus in this same Assembly.
The conference and the new network bring together both Francophone and Anglophone members of African parliaments, as an important political departure.
The conference resolved to urge the Arusha conference of African parliamentarians that precedes COP Nairobi and the COP itself to
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implement the principle of equity through the approach of contraction and convergence (C&C) in the Post Kyoto Negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change. It called for this approach to meet Africa's need to mitigate climate change in a way, which reduces poverty and enables sustainable development.
The new network of African parliamentarians will meet again in January 2007 to follow up the work of COP and deepen the involvement of parliamentarians at the local, regional, national and international level.
The conference was sponsored by AGCC in London, and the British High Commission in Yaounde, Cameroon.
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