An African view of the Copenhagen conference on climate change

Zeremariam Fre, PENHA's Executive Director joined three others on the VoxAfrica channel to discuss how Africa might be affected by the conference. This discussion took place in November 2009.

Over a hundred world leaders descended on Copenhagen in December 2009 in a bid to save the world from the threat of climate change. They were under pressure to agree to cut carbon emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and to stop the earth's temperature from rising by more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Could this summit really deliver for Africa, and is the continent speaking with one voice? This discussion, which took place as the conference was beginning, included the following guests.

DR AMA BINEY, Historian and Pan-Africanist, SIMON TRACE from PRACTICAL ACTION UK, and DR ZEREMARIAM FRE from the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) and University College London. The presenter was HENRY BONSU.