OUAGADOUGOU — Africa needs 65 billion dollars (44 billion euros) to deal with the effects of global warming, Burkina Faso's environment minister said Friday at the opening of a special forum on climate change.
The seventh World Forum on Sustainable Development comes just two months before a critical UN climate summit in Copenhagen set to seal a planet-saving global deal.
"We think 65 billion dollars are needed to deal with the effects of climate change on a continental scale. That is to say that our expectations are very high," Salifou Sawadogo, one of the forum's organisers, told AFP at the opening of the event.
At the forum organised by the government of Burkina Faso together with the United Nations and the African Union, several African heads of state will meet key policy makers to discuss the opportunities climate change could offer for sustainable development.
Friday, October 9, 2009
AFP: Africa needs $65 bln to meet climate change: minister
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