18/12/2009 Cameroon’s Head of State and Madame are expected to participate in the plenary of the ongoing UN Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen today 17th December 2009.
Before heading for Copenhagen, Paul Biya joined other Heads of States of member countries of the Central African Forest Commission, COMIFAC in Paris France.
The African leaders were treated to a luncheon offered by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
The lunch was organised to come up with a common plan of action that will be tabled before Heads of State and Government during the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Justice.
During the lunch, Cameroon’s Head of State, Paul Biya was nominated spokes person of the Heads of State of the COMIFAC.
The luncheon at the Elysée Palace ended with a press conference granted by President Sarkozy and his African peers.
The French President was categorical; he urged the United States of America to lead the Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations for a comprehensive binding deal to be signed.
Nicolas Sarkozy said the Obama administration should make more concessions to convince the developing world that the industrialised nations are ready for a-save-the-planet deal.
The five African Heads of States present at the press conference had a common stance; they were vivid, clear and précised that Africa is determined to work together during the Copenhagen Summit to forge climate justice.
President Paul Biya who gave the concluding speech thanked the French President for organising which an enriching concerting and France’s support for Climate Justice and the protection of the Congo Basin forest which is second largest rain forest in the world only next to the Amazon.
He said the way forward is for World leaders to standing together during the summit. President Paul Biya left France Wednesday evening for the Danish capital Copenhagen venue of the climate change summit.
Worthy of note is that the Congo Basin Rain Forest that spans over 200 million hectares constitutes an important carbon sink. Its conservation is therefore absolutely necessary if the forest must continue to absorb destructive carbon and help regulate the global climate.
Elvis Teke
