Climate Change: an urgent action needed to fight this

From every indication only a global effort is needed to combat it despicable effects Climate change has recently been the nucleus of topics for world leaders and other global actors. “Climate change is real. Its impact, if unchecked could be very devastating if not catastrophic over the coming decades… we must begin to attack the problem right now”, said Ban Ki - Moon, UN Secretary General. According to him an estimated 20 million people around the world were depending on a lake and river system that has shrunk to a tenth of its original size over the past 30 years.
There is no doubt that climate change is already causing untold devastation on earth and if urgent actions are not taken the situation might be worst in the nearest future. Floods are becoming to rampant water resources are fast degrading, temperatures are rising and illnesses are more prevalent as a result of climate change which scientists say is a consequence of human activity. Among some of those world leaders who believe in global efforts to combat climate change is President Paul Biya, of Cameroon. The president used the floor of the United Nations in New York during the organization’s recent general assembly summoned by its Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, aimed at hunting solutions to climate change, to hammer on the need for urgent action to halt the increasingly devastating climate change. In his address to world leaders Biya, who has been in power for over twenty years said urgent action is needed to save the planet and preserved it for future generations. “We must make an effort to arrive at a global consensus on every aspect of the evolution of the climate as demanded by the UN framework convention on climate change”, said Biya. On the other hand, the President who announced the creation of an observatory on climate in his country - Cameroon, used the occasion to call on the international community to come to the aid of the countries hosting the hush and vas Congo Basin - Spanning most of the Central African Sub-Region that he said, were destroying their environment for the sake of development.
It should be noted here that official figures indicate that 3.7 million hectares of the Congo Basin’s forest are lost annually through human activities such as agriculture, forest exploitation and extraction of petroleum oils. On this score the Tunisian Government should be commended for taking the initiative to hold an international conference next 18 - 20 November, to design strategies that can be adopted everywhere across the continent and Mediterranean to combat the threat of climate change.

Courtesy - Harry Ndienla Yemti