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An African view of the Copenhagen conference on climate change

Zeremariam Fre, PENHA's Executive Director joined three others on the VoxAfrica channel to discuss how Africa will be affected by the conference.

Over a hundred world leaders descended on Copenhagen in December 2009 in a bid to save the world from the threat of climate change. They were under pressure to agree to cut carbon emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and to stop the earth's temperature from rising by more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Could this summit really deliver for Africa, and is the continent speaking with one voice? This discussion, which took place as the conference was beginning, included the following guests.

DR AMA BINEY, Historian and Pan-Africanist, SIMON TRACE from PRACTICAL ACTION UK, and DR ZEREMARIAM FRE from the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) and University College London. The presenter was HENRY BONSU.

If you have a fast connection (broad band or ADSL), the discussion can be followed here. Click on the arrow in the middle of the frame. The disussion lasted about one hour.

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