AMCEN’s work on climate change in Africa (African Process for Combating Climate Change) was initiated as a follow up to the twelfth session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) held in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2008 during which AMCEN underscored the importance of the decision and outcomes of the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, in particular the agreement on the Bali Action Plan, which set 2009 as the end date for negotiations on strengthening the climate regime beyond 2012. More >> |