Crops affected by climate change

Members of Parliament on the Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change have said contributions by major environmental polluting countries like US and China in mitigating climate change effects in developing countries is too little to avert disasters like floods, mudslides, drought and poor harvests among others. MPs including Ora county MP Lawrence Songa Biyika, Moroto MP Samuel Okwir and Kapelebyong MP Julius Ochen among others now want  thorough preparations ahead of the Morocco summit on the UN Framework Convention on Climate (UNFCC) cop 22 to take place on November 7-18th.

Songa says Parliament needs to work on the bill on climate change to ensure earlier signed agreements on climate change are implemented if Uganda is to benefit from international conferences on climate change effects mitigation. According to Okwir, China and US give very little and conditional funds yet continue to be biggest polluters without considering that land for example in Uganda  one can use one piece of land for growing many crops and one cannot only grow trees in US’ interest.

The MPs want the Morocco meeting for November to equip African countries with enough data to base on whenever there are any opportunities to engage US, China and other globally known countries polluting the environment to pay heavily on the basis that the countries have led to diverse effects in less developed countries.