COP 21 Special Newsletter for CILSS/ECOWAS/UEMOA Climate negotiators
This special bulleting for COP 21 designed by CILSS, ECOWAS, UEMOA and BOAD is especially dedicated to climate negotiators, decision-makers and the civil society from the CILSS/ECOWAS/UEMOA region but also to any reader who is interested in climate change issues and international negotiations on climate.
This bulletin reminds at first, climate trends as specified in the last report of the IPCC report which is adopted in 2014 and its implications in the strategic sectors for the sub-region that benefits from recent activities of the AGRHYMET Regional Centre/CILSS.
After analyzing the balance sheet of 20 years of Rio negotiation in Lima, while laying emphasizes on the last progress made, this bulletin high-lights (1) the challenges of COP 21 notably on the position of the African Group and the orientations by the CILSS/ECOWAS/UEMOA region regarding the negotiation blocs (Shared vision, mitigation, adaptation, funding, capacity-building and transfer of technologies) (ii) identifying the agenda of the Conference of Paris and finally (iii) the analysis of the Intended Na-tionally Determined Contributions (CPDN/INDCs) of West African coun-tries. Download
