18 November: As COP 23 drew to a close, the Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group, Gebru Jember Endalew, said, “As an Ethiopian, I know intimately the pain caused by climate change. My country is in the grip of a severe drought that has put 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia at risk of increased food insecurity. At the same time, our friends in South Asia have been drenched by extraordinary monsoon flooding, friends in the Caribbean have been battered by devastating hurricanes, and island states in the pacific are watching their homes disappear before their eyes beneath the water.” Continue reading
(NOV 14, 2017) – Bonn, Germany. On the sidelines of the UN Climate Summit an unprecedented global alliance of civil society groups warned that 2018 would see an escalation of activism against polluting dirty energies. The alliance, known as Reclaim Power, sports representatives from over 75 countries across every continent and has already coordinated on over 2000 protests and events calling for the transformation of energy systems as a key step in addressing climate change. 
A COP23 Presidency ocean initiative is being developed at the UN climate Summit. Called ‘the Ocean Pathway’ it embodies the important relationship between the Ocean and Climate Change. 
Zambia, 8 -11-17, Friday Phiri (IPS)- As governments gather in Bonn, at COP 23 to hammer out a blueprint to implement the global climate change treaty signed in Paris in 2015, a major focus will be on reducing emissions to keep the global average temperature increase to well below 2°C by 2020. While achieving this goal requires serious mitigation, LDCs such as Zambia are also emphasising adaptation as enshrined in Article 2 (b) of the Paris Agreement: Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production. 
The energy sector is the biggest contributor to climate change, but leaves 1 billion people without electricity. Fossil fuels are no longer viable yet are still heavily subsidized.
October 31, 2017: The global rate of electrification has slowed down in recent years leaving 1.06 billion people still without access. If progress is not substantially increased, the United Nations’ and World Bank’s Sustainable Energy for All goal to reach universal energy access by 2030 will not be met. Simply put, there are not enough new electricity connections taking place because there is not enough funding for it. LDC Blog Posts
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