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10:00 CAT | 05 Sep 2023
Photo: Twitter / @DrAlfredMutua
President Filipe Nyusi, highlighted on Tuesday, in Nairobi, the “paramount importance” of the Africa Climate Summit, taking place in Kenya, and recalled the consequences of climate change that Mozambique is already experiencing.
“This meeting is of f paramount importance for the African continent in a context in which the effects of climate change are felt with greater intensity, particularly in our country, which, cyclically, is hit by extreme events”, highlighted Filipe Nyusi, upon arrival for the Summit.
Starting today, the President of Mozambique will participate in the Africa Climate Summit, which is taking place in Kenya and brings together more than 20 heads of state.
Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi the Africa Climate Summit
Photos: Silas Otieno#AfricaClimateSummit23 pic.twitter.com/Hr6FSyrgFI— The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) September 5, 2023
“We will make this event an opportunity to gather the different experiences in managing the phenomena arising from climate change, but also to express our position, as Mozambique, on this reality that is increasingly worrying for the security of the people”, Nyusi stressed.
The event, organized by the African Union and the Government of Kenya, will bring together African Heads of State and Government and other world leaders, “in a debate focusing on climate change, renewable energy and the development of the blue economy,” according to a note by the Presidency of the Republic of Mozambique.
Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, cyclically facing floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs between October and April.
The 2018/2019 rainy season was one of the most severe in memory in Mozambique: 714 people died, including 648 victims of cyclones Idai and Kenneth, two of the biggest ever to hit the country.
The adoption of the ‘Nairobi Declaration’ – a document that seeks to articulate a common African position to different global forums – is expected to take place at the end of the Summit, which runs until Wednesday and is attended by more than 20 African heads of state and government, as well as leaders from other regions of the world and international organizations
Participants want to have a unified perspective of the African continent for the COP28 Climate Summit, in Dubai, scheduled for the end of the year, the UN General Assembly, before the Group of Twenty (G20, group of twenty of the world’s largest economies) or with international financial institutions.
African countries hit by the effects of the climatic disruption must be offered debt restructuring and pauses so as not to undermine their ability to invest in development. pic.twitter.com/nO1G2YhycT
— William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) September 4, 2023
Africa is home to some of the countries most affected by climate change and phenomena, including, for example, Mozambique, when African countries are among those least responsible for the global climate crisis.
CS Alfred Mutua welcomes Presidents Samia Suluhu, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohamed Menfi and Filipe Nyusi, who are in the country to attend Africa Climate Summit pic.twitter.com/0evUVBQO6A
— KenyaMOJA.com (@KenMOJA) September 5, 2023
Early this morning, I welcomed H.E. @filipe_nyusi President of Mozambique and later H.E. @SassouNGuesso_ President of the Republic of the Congo upon their arrival in Nairobi.
More Heads of State and Government are expected to arrive later this morning to take part in the… pic.twitter.com/u2Kk6y8luv
— Dr. Alfred N. Mutua (@DrAlfredMutua) September 5, 2023
Acabei de aterrar hoje em Nairobi, República do Quénia, para participar na Cimeira de Acção Climática em África. pic.twitter.com/nWtsIwtRrF
— Presidente Filipe Nyusi (@filipe_nyusi) September 4, 2023
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