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Uganda was among the first 175 countries to sign the Paris agreement on climate change in New York on 22nd April 2016. The commitment was reaffirmed by the prime minister on behalf of Uganda at large. This confirmed that Uganda realized the importance of the Paris agreement and also realized that it should be among the priority areas by the government in the next 5 years. The measures to address the effects of climate change have as well been integrated into the country?s Vision 2040 and the National Development plan 2015-2020. The public sector, private sector and different parastatals are coming up to support different initiatives that have been put forward to meet the different activities and initiatives that are aiming at improving and fighting the effects of climate change. Whereas world leaders call for this urgent action for climate change, there is still a lot to be done as they have to translate commitments into action. There is therefore need to run fast and even faster in walking the talk. When Trump with drew away from the Paris agreement, it is inconvenient because for as far as industrialization and climate change is concerned, US is one of the states that are being blamed for the causes of climate change that have actually been experienced by the rest of the countries especially in Africa where there has been less industrial revolution. However it is as well so mistaken to blame the inaction of the climate change accord on to US. It is important for each country to acknowledge our own role in unfolding the climate crisis and to a small extent we should not dwell so much on what has not gone right with the US but consider it important to acknowledge our own effort on what we can do to solve this. As Uganda, a lot is being done to solve the crisis. Partnerships have come up and I think in 5years from now, we shall not be where we are now. |
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7 Comments
thanks for sharing
Posted 06-02-2018 21:08
good information
Posted 06-02-2018 21:07
Tremendous respect to Uganda for fulfilling its responsibility towards mitigating global climate change and I am glad to note that Uganda was one of the first countries to sign the Paris Agreement. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 09-07-2017 01:31
Hi, Joanita Babirye, it was really great learning that Uganda was among the first to sign the environmental accord. However, I found it difficult to read your report, especially towards the end because it is not well articulated and had a lot of typos. Put this into consideration and you will have a better report. You can also spice your report with links and pictures. Best wishes.
Posted 07-07-2017 05:44
Hi Joanita! Thanks for your encouraging message:) I totally agree with what you said, especially the part that each country should acknowledge its own role in fighting against climate change. Hope we could all work together for better, and safer future!
Posted 06-07-2017 22:29
Joanita, thank you for your report. You are truly right with saying that one could blame US, but still we have to concentrate on our own responsibilities, roles. We have to further deal with our own issues. I think US and other nations who have not joined the agreement yet would sign the Agreement later, if the nations with the Agreement do their best jobs and show lots of improvement with climate issues.
Posted 06-07-2017 13:08
Very rightly written that we just cannot blame US for climate inaction but each country has an important role to play in adhering to Paris Climate Agreement. Thanks for your wonderful report.
Posted 06-07-2017 04:50