Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The European Commission in Brussels, which is the executive body of the Union, said that Ursula von der Leyen, President of the Commission, will participate tomorrow, Tuesday, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in the work of the African Climate Summit.
Policymakers, business leaders and environmental activists from across the continent are expected to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and how to adapt to the growing fallout from the climate crisis.
On the eve of the summit, UNICEF said that children in Africa are among the groups most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, yet they are being unfortunately neglected in terms of funding to help them adapt, survive and respond to the climate crisis. According to what was stated in the United Nations news bulletin, a copy of which we received this morning
In a report released Friday, the UN agency classified children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed as being at "high or very high risk" of the effects of climate change based on their exposure to climatic and environmental shocks, such as hurricanes and heat waves, as well as their vulnerability to those shocks. .
UNICEF said in its report that children in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, Somalia and Guinea-Bissau are most at risk.
According to UNICEF, children and youth play an essential role in change and long-term sustainability, so their ideas, creativity and skills must be taken seriously and become an integral part of solutions in the face of the climate crisis.
In this regard, the Agency, the United Nations Environment Program and the International Labor Organization are working with youth, governments, employers' and workers' organizations and the private sector to design and implement what is known as the Green Jobs Charter for Youth, which aims to develop 1 million new green jobs, transform 1 million existing jobs and assist 10 Thousands of young environmental entrepreneurs to start their businesses by 2030.