Parched Earth in Africa

With climate change still a major global challenge pausing threats to the eco-systems and natural resources that support livelihoods on the earth, Uganda, after the December Paris climate change meeting, has finally ratified the Paris agreement under the UN framework convention on climate change which now compels Uganda to re-commit herself to the global efforts to mitigate climate change. According to the information minister, the ratification also implies that Uganda has re-commited herself to incorporating environment protection, resilience and adaptation components in its development programmes and projects and cabinet has been ordered foreign affairs ministry to go ahead to ratify the agreement.

Hash climate conditions have over the years manifested in Uganda with the recent being the Kasese floods, Teso floods, long droughts, landslides in mountain Elgon among others. And with Uganda being a signatory to the 195 member UN frame work convention on climate change (UNFCCC) which came into force in 1994 which demands that Uganda curtails greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat contributing to global warming.