Uganda was among the first 175 countries to sign the Paris agreement on climate change in New York on 22^nd 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.