COP17: SADC to Speak With One Voice

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has released a common ‘framework’ intended to shape and support a regional climate-change response that means the region would go to the United Nations (UN) climate change talks in December with one voice.
 
Director of Zimbabwe’s science and technology ministry, Rungano Karimanzira, has described the process as an important step, adding that, “We won’t be going to COP17 (the 17th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban) wearing different jackets, never mind speaking with different voices.”
 
Developing nations are battling reluctance from some of the world’s most developed nations, such as the US, Canada and Japan, to sign up to a second commitment period for the 1997 UN’s Kyoto Protocol that started international collaboration on stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

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