Ethiopia calls for financing for LDCs to tackle the impacts of climate change

Addis Ababa, March 1, 2022 (FBC) – During the second day of the Resumed the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA 5.2) taking place in Nairobi Kenya from 28th February to 2nd of March 2022, Ethiopia called the global community to ensure predictable and sustainable finance for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to tackle the impacts of climate change.

In his national address to the Assembly on 01 March 2022, Getahun Garedew (PhD), the Director General of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia reiterated the importance of ensuring predictable and sustainable finance for LDCs in accordance with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) on financing sustainable development. 

The Director General stressed the significance of mainstreaming the climate change protection agenda into national and international policy arenas, and the need to take concrete and pertinent actions to implement climate-resilient policies with the provision of adequate finance and transfer of technology. 

He also recapped major activities undertaken by the Government of Ethiopia in fighting climate change-related hazards by adopting necessary policy documents and legal frameworks to realize the achievement of the country’s goal of net-zero GHG emission by 2025.

Getahun reiterated Ethiopia’s unwavering commitment to the implementation of all sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly the environmental dimensions of sustainable development goals.  

The resumed Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, which is being convened under the theme of “strengthening actions for nature to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, will continue until 2nd March 2022. 

The Assembly is expected to deliberate on various environmental resolutions and declarations and will be followed by the celebration of the 50th commemoration of United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP @50) from 03 to 04 March 2022.