Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda.
For such, the “compensation instead of reduction” principle allows them to legally exceed a limit — for example, for the emission of greenhouse gases — while keeping their footprint low by ensuring an additional reduction of emissions elsewhere, in this case here in Africa.
“Yet that great public benefit that the African ecosystem provides to the world has not yet been fully acknowledged.
The Giants Club unites sitting or former heads of state of the four countries that hold half of Africa’s remaining elephants: Botswana, Gabon, Kenya, and Uganda.
So if we lose the Congo Basin we lose 1.5 degrees, we lose 2 degrees, we lose 3 degrees, we’re heading to a fourth degree as well.
“In Rwanda we have seen first-hand the impact of climate change.
Floods, droughts and landslides have damaged livelihoods and property, and tragically cost too many lives,” he said.
“Resources need to be mobilised for this purpose so as to ensure a soft landing for the transgressors, many of them out of ignorance or wrong government actions.
You cannot say that the society remains in primitive agriculture but, somehow, you will ensure environmental conservation.