mitigation Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mitigation/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 mitigation Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mitigation/ 32 32 Egypt to host climate change summit for Africa https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/egypt-to-host-climate-change-summit-for-africa/ Sun, 09 Aug 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/08/egypt-to-host-climate-change-summit-for-africa/ Egypt’s planning to host a climate change summit focussing on the damage being caused by global warming to African countries who have the lowest negative impact on the phenomenon. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, speaking to African journalists invited to the opening of the Suez Canal’s second lane, says this is part of his country’s […]

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]]> Egypt’s planning to host a climate change summit focussing on the damage being caused by global warming to African countries who have the lowest negative impact on the phenomenon.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, speaking to African journalists invited to the opening of the Suez Canal’s second lane, says this is part of his country’s new, more muscular engagement with its continent.
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President Abdel Fattah El Sisi says Africa and Egypt share challenges, problems, hopes and expectations.
Climate change is one of these.
Africa has lowest impact of any continent on global warming.
Yet its countries are paying the highest price
El Sisi says Egypt will host a conference designed to stop Africans paying the bill for climate change without benefitting from the damaged caused by developed countries or the funds being accumulated for mitigating the damage. 

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