Green Africa

Fifteen days ago, in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, took place the second African climate summit in the presence of forty African heads of state and government. A significant meeting of emerging awareness on this immense continent which, although responsible for only 4 % of greenhouse gas emissions, is particularly exposed to current climate change.

Disruptions that could impact in the coming decades the subsistence of almost 4/5th in the African population. It is therefore urgent to prepare “a resilient and green development”, say the organizers of this meeting.

The Catholic church was also expressed there through Mgr Coffi Roger Anoumou, bishop of Lokossa, in Benin, representing the symposium of episcopal conferences in Africa and Madagascar (SCEAM). And what does she say? It supports the use of renewable energies and the end of the exploitation of fossil fuels, the development of regenerative agriculture and the appropriate technologies that protect biodiversity and respect cultural heritage. While denouncing the quest for short -term profits, carbon compensation and extractive projects.

The bishops invite each parish, school, diocese to participate in this movement. Because “Africa must also rise as a moral voice and agent of its own transformation”.