Gobal Warming

NEW STRATEGIES IN AFRICA
In the declaration delivered April 16, the African ministers acknowledged that the challenges of climate variability and change in Africa call for “decisionmaking based on scientifically sound data and information by governments and communities in order to develop adaptation strategies and action plans.”
Weather and climate information and services, they wrote, are needed to support climate-sensitive social and economic development sectors like health, agriculture and food security, transport, disaster-risk reduction, natural resource management, water resource management and energy generation and distribution.
As part of the declaration, they agreed to establish the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology as a high-level mechanism for developing meteorology, and to hold the meeting every two years.
They also agreed to develop a strategy for enhancing cooperation among African countries to strengthen their met services. They also plan to establish a mechanism that gives African met services access to the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, established at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in December 2009.