2023-05-13 00:22:03
Ethiopian authorities on Thursday unveiled a Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy or LT-LEDS, which will serve as a roadmap for Ethiopia’s long-term decarburization and climate-resilient development.
The LED strategy was prepared on the basis of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement which encourages countries to set their own emission reduction targets, reviewed every five years to revise ambitions upwards.
The newly launched national strategy provides a roadmap on how to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 while meeting development goals.
It offers “an opportunity to examine the interactions, synergies and trade-offs between the different sectoral climate objectives and national development priorities”, indicated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The strategy was launched at an event attended by senior federal and regional officials, as well as international entities that supported the development of this essential national framework.
In his opening speech, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen said that climate change continues to seriously affect people’s livelihoods by causing droughts and ecological imbalances, among others.
The Minister added that Ethiopia was implementing various green economy related activities to address these challenges.
Among these, projects such as the Green Legacy Initiative (GLI) and the exploitation of renewable energy sources, which Ethiopia is endowed with, are an integral part of the climate agenda, Mr. Demeke added.
He added that through the GLI, Ethiopia is conducting “green diplomacy” in East Africa and wants to expand its engagement at the continental level.
It is high time to unite and exert maximum efforts to meet the challenges, Demeke said, calling on partners to support Ethiopia’s initiative.
Developing countries, including Ethiopia, bear the full brunt of the phenomena induced by climate change, despite a minimal contribution to global carbon emissions.
Under the Paris Agreement of 2015, developed nations pledged to provide annual funding of $100 billion by 2020 to help developing nations cope with the effects of climate change and build greener economies; however, they did not fulfill their commitments.
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