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China must lead in helping Africa take real action on environmental challenges, Mathias Agbo Jnr says

China must lead in helping Africa take real action on environmental challenges, Mathias Agbo Jnr says

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In spite of Africa’s constant presence at global environmental summits, and the raft of environmental treaties and conventions it has signed since the Kyoto Protocol, most countries on the continent have failed to achieve significant progress in tackling environmental challenges. Most Africans are ignorant about the so-called environmental “din”, as their governments have reduced this very important matter to mere slogan-chanting, talk shops, and tree-planting rituals. Sadly, this is the hallmark of ­Africa’s overall environmental policy direction. The reality is that a significant section of Africa’s poor are not yet interested in “far-fetched” issues like clean energy and reducing carbon footprints, because these do very little to ameliorate the difficult conditions they live in. They are more concerned with attaining basic acceptable living conditions befitting human dignity. –SCMP/

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Let us not shift the blame onto China. This is the challenge that African representatives must face -making climate change a relevant and important issue in their societies. A great place to start would with all those contracts with foreign investors since they are the biggest cause of ecological degradation on the continent…

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