A NUMBER of civil societies within East Africa have launched a Petition targeting the East African Community on climate change.
The seven civil societies include East African Sustainability
watch, sustainability watch Kenya, Uganda Coalition for sustainable
Development, TaTEDO Center for Sustainable Energy services in Tanzania, Inforse
East Africa, Devolution and Climate Change adaption in Western Kenya.
In their Petition, the CSOs say in East Africa, Climate Change is derailing the
efforts towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals as well as achieving
efforts to reduce poverty.
The six issues the civil societies want the East
African Community to address in terms of climate change include: incorporating
gender equality and women empowerment in all regional climate change discourse
and actions starting with the gender action plan from the Paris Agreement,
promotion of civil societies and private sector participation on issues of
climate change.
Other issues include the inclusion vulnerable
groups on the issues of climate change as well as tracking and monitoring as
well as evaluating the issues of climate change in East Africa region.
- Read the content and follow updates on the E petition here
