Kagame leads Africa’s call on climate change

NEW-YORK - President Paul Kagame yesterday drummed up international support on behalf of Africa for a concrete pact on climate change, arguing that Africa will be hard hit if no action is taken.  He called for a shared mitigation and adaptation strategy that would leave no one behind. The only African leader to address the special United Nations session debating Climate Change, ahead of the December Copenhagen Summit, President Kagame told his fellow Heads of State that Africa stands out to suffer severe impacts of climate change and yet its resources remain inadequate to manage the challenge. “Africa will probably have the greater and more severe impacts from climate change than other parts of the world,” Kagame told the UN General Assembly.