CSNews Desk
The voice of the pan African climate Justice alliance, PACJA- Africans leading civil society organizations in cop 21 Is beginning to echo.
In a session that was moderated by PACJA’S programs manager Sam Ogala Samson at the African pavilion Mme Maria D.phiri from the COMESA Secretariat in Zambia, admitted that climate change and gender issues were of critical importance to our future development pathways and unless it was addressed with a mindset of participation and capacity building we were doom to fail.
“We must face the development aspect of climate change and act on gender at all levels” Maria reinterated.
Reflecting on the words of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, that climate change affects us all but not equally, Emma Bowa, advocacy manager adaptation and learning programs in Kenya recommended more stronger research issues around climate change, a recognition of the different women groups around the world and capacity building and financial support.
Other panelists like Winifred Lichuma chair person Genderand Development in Kenya, called for a language that promotes gender and a just and ambitious binding treaty on cop21.
“We must build on the Lima action pack so as to have a gender responsive agreement” she added.
This session was the first of a series of working sessions to be championed by PACJA during this ongoing cop21 deliberations.
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