West African Parliamentarians and local elected representatives in climate change conclave in Praia.
A few months away from the decisive round of negotiations for an agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December, West African parliamentarians and local elected representatives have decided to make their voice heard.
Photo: Senegal IUCN Office
Organised by the West African Regional Marine Conservation Programme (PRCM) as part of the Programme in Support of the Regional Network of Parliamentarians and Local Elected Representatives of the PRCM countries, coordinated by IUCN Senegal, this atelier will be attended by parliamentarians, local elected representatives and experts from the countries in the PRCM (Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Sierra-Leone). Representatives from other ECOWAS countries are also expected to attend. While climate change is a global phenomenon, the consequences are more obvious in the developing countries, particularly in For According to Mr Racine Kane, the Head of the IUCN Senegal Mission - “in this present negotiation process that some describe as the last chance for Africa, the Parliamentarians are entitled to their say, all the more so since in all the processes for defining environmental policies in Africa, the contribution of Parliamentarians turns out to be necessary as depositaries of the prerogatives of the allocation of budget resources, the voting of laws and the ratification of international conventions”. At least four chairmen of parliamentary institutions have confirmed their attendance at the For more information, contact. Racine Kane, leader of the IUCN’s
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