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Cameroon creates national climate change observatory

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AlertNet) – Faced with rising temperatures and advancing desert in the north and disastrous flooding in the south, Cameroon’s government will this year create a National Observatory on Climate Change, aimed at monitoring the effects of climate change on the country’s people, agriculture and ecosystems, and guiding work on climate action.

The new body, to be made up primarily of environmental and climate change experts and civil society representatives, including grassroots groups, will aim to provide “unprecedented data and information for more improved climate change mitigation and adaptation action,” said Pierre Hele, the country’s minister of environment and nature protection, in a speech earlier this month.

The observatory, which has been in planning since 2009, will also “counsel and sensitise the population” of Cameroon on climate change issues, he said, at a time when concern about climate change issues is surging across the country.

The project, backed by more than 3 billion CFA ($6 million) in funding this year, is part of a broader national climate change strategy that includes a three-year initiative to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.