On Thursday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud affirmed that his country has a strategy to confront the effects of climate change. The Somali President said - in an interview reported by Channel One on Egyptian TV on the sidelines of the 27th session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) in Sharm El Sheikh - “Somalia’s priorities at the (COP 27) conference presented the challenges it suffers from and related to Climate and environmental change, as it is affected by high temperature and suffers from drought, and we have lost a large number of livestock, and we have not been able to cultivate the land, perhaps for 4 years, due to water scarcity and high humidity.”
He added: It is also our priority - during the (COP 27) conference - to listen to the challenges facing other countries, draw experience from them and participate with the international finance community to support Somalia. He explained that Somalia suffers from the influence of terrorist groups that have controlled large areas of the country over the past 15 years, so "our priorities - now and in the short term - are to protect lives and avoid the threat of starvation, and as for our long-term strategy, it is to provide the opportunity for citizens to recover from These crises and that we have solutions to climate change and to move away from the phenomenon of desertification and then restructure the soil and infrastructure and mitigate the severity of climate change and its effects on the country.”
On the issue of financing, the President said that Somalia receives insufficient funding to a large extent, and “we do not produce our basic needs and we have arable land, but it is barren; Therefore, we need financing and technology to contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change, and we also need to find different solutions to climate crises.”
The Somali president stressed the need to focus now on solutions to climate change because it affects the developing and developed countries, and the partnership and coordination among us, whether developing or developed countries, to access financing so that we can develop and develop in our countries, calling on the developed countries to be honest and committed to the commitments they make, not verbal. Practically speaking, however, he points out that the Climate Conference (COP 27) is the “together” implementation conference.
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