AA / Tunis / Fatma Ben Amor
Senegalese women from the capital and interior regions marched on Saturday in Dakar against climate inaction, as part of the fourth edition of the Women’s Climate March, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) reported / Official).
Participants in the march held up signs reading: “All against climate inaction”, We are only 10 years old”, and “Stop soil pollution”.
At the initiative of the environmental protection association “Les Vacances vertes”, this march was held a few days before the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) , scheduled for November 11 to 22, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
”We want to demonstrate through this march that citizens of the African continent are mobilizing against climate change. Climate change is everyone’s business, from young people to parents, including those bringing local solutions and associations”, declared the president of the association “Les Vacances vertes”, Khady Camara, relayed by the APS, noting that “the climate crisis is at the junction of an environmental, economic and social crisis”.
And to underline that “the citizens of the rural and urban world of Senegal and Africa are committed to climate justice”.
COP29 “will bring together leaders from governments, businesses and civil society to find concrete solutions”, “as global temperatures reach record levels and extreme weather events affect people around the world”, says the UN on its official website.
The Conference “will be primarily focused on financing” and “will also be a key moment during which countries will present their updated national climate action plans under the Paris Agreement, which are expected at the start of the ‘year 2025’.
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