The African Science

Sep - Oct | 2018
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CCDA in Kenya cont from Page 1
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has increased considerably
over time warning that future
warming impacts are likely
to cause wide fluctuations in
thermal and precipitation dynamics.
Responding to the current and future
impacts of climate change, the
parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change
submitted an intended nationally determined
contributions (INDC’s)as the
new global climate governance framework
to limit the increase in the global
average temperature to well below 2oC
above pre-industrial levels.
The INDC’s forms part of the Paris
Agreement on climate change, on
which the global climate actions will
be built after 2020.
As of June 2018, of the 54 African
countries signatories to the Paris
Agreement, 44 had submitted their
nationally determined contributions to
the Framework Convention.
The INDC’s are imperative in ensuring
that African countries re-exam-
Participants keenly follow the opening ceremony at the CCDA 7 conference
that took place in Nairobi Kenya in Ocober.
ine their options under the changing
global political landscape to effectively
promote climate resilience and low
carbon emission as outlined in Agenda
2063: The Africa We Want and the Paris
Agreement. Translating NDC’s into
concrete actions, however, requires,
among other things, implementation
plans that prioritize specific sectoral
climate actions and predictable finance
flows, sustained capacity-building and
the transfer of relevant technologies
from developed countries.
This, in turn, calls for serious dialogue
and interaction between policymakers,
scientists and researchers, as
well as other stakeholders, to support
the translation of the nationally determined
contributions into action plans
and programmes.
The gathering built on the sixth
Conference, which focused on understanding
the implementation implications,
challenges and opportunities of
the Paris Agreement in the context of
Africa’s development priorities prior
to it coming into effect on 4 November
2016.
In keeping with the Conference’s
founding philosophy, the seventh meeting
was intended to facilitate sciencepractice-policy
dialogue.
Three themes guided the dialogue:
advancing the implementation of the
nationally determined contributions in
Africa, the role of climate information
and services in support of those contributions
and climate finance for them.
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