In observance of Global Week of Climate Change, Actionaid calls for teamwork in ending the climate change negative impacts.Delivering her speech following a match pass by Global Platform Youths,the Executive Director,Mrs Ndella Faye Colley,said her organization remains committed to this campaign and will continue to collaborate with all stakeholders to combat the impact of climate change at community, national and international level.
She urges the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the government in general to use public funds to solve the climate crisis, reduce the expenditure on fossil fuel and re-direct some investment to renewal energy to safe the environment and mother earth.
“Gambia as a country is more of a consumer than a producer of fossil fuel and Africa as a continent is only responsible for 2 to 3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industrial sources.”
She added that the struggle to end fossil fuel cannot be solved by the government alone but requires collective coordinated efforts from all relevant stakeholders.
“This gathering,like countless others across the global is a symbolic manifestation of our commitment to combat climate change and demand for climate justice.The global effort to address the devastating impact for climate change has been a loud and sometimes controversial one, sparking and unending debate about who is responsible for the continuous destruction of the planet and what action need to be taken to remedy that”
Mrs Ndella Faye Colley emphasized that the threat to our survival is absolutely legitimate and this means that if we do not find a way to work together to end the devastating effect of climate change, very soon there will be no planet to fight over.
The Global Platform Youths embarked on match pass from the Westfield monument to the Ministry of environmental on Kairaba Avenue where the Actionaid ED made statement with other dignitaries.
