Africities 2018: Find out the climate day program !
Cities and territories members of UCLG Africa committed to the fight againstt Climate Change
Cities and territories of Africa represent a significant share of the continent’s GHG emissions (about 70 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa) and they host millions of people in areas that are sometimes very vulnerable to the effects of climate change. They also concentrate the bulk of economic activity in Africa and the bulk of investment (infrastructure, business buildings, equipment, etc.). These realities reinforce the importance of the cities and territories of Africa in the implementation of the policies of fight against climate change.
UCLG Africa intends to make of the 8th edition of the Africities Summit a strong political moment in the service of the achievement of a common goal of the cities and local governments in response to the major challenges of climate change and of the transition towards sustainable development.
This general objectives aims specifically to strengthen the actions of the cities and territories in support of states for the implementation of their Nationally Determined Planned Contributions (NDPCs) or their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
This moment should lead to the adoption of a joint Declaration on the commitment to a broader partnership between national governments and local and regional governments in Africa for the implementation of the NDCs.
Goals and objectives of the Africities Climate Day
The Africities Climate Day is held five years earlier to the deadline of 2023 for elevating the ambitions of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This Climate Day Aims to bring together all the stakeholders mobilized for the fighr against global warming and the effects of Climate change. For its first edition, the Africities Climate Day will focus its reflections on the creation of the NDCs of the African countries concerning the seven key components of the Paris Agreement, namely :
- Adaptation ;
- Mitigation ;
- South-South cooperation ;
- Territorialization of the NDCs ;
- Financing ;
- Capacity building ;
- The transparency framework
The Africities “Climate Day” sets five strategic & operational goals :
- Identifying best practices ;
- Setting the priorities and goals to be achieved by 2023, starting date of the binding period of the Paris Agreement ;
- Developing the 2030 Agenda of the cities and territories of Africa for Climate ;
- Evaluating the Declaration the Africities “Climate Day” to be presented at COP 24 in Poland in December.
This Desclaration aims to have UNFC recognize the centrality of cities and territories of African in the resilience to Climate Change and the need for these cities and territories, to receive more attention and involvement in implementation of the NDCs, on the one hand, and to be represented in the international climate proceedings, on the other hand.
