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07/15/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/14/2021 22:49
Africa Day 2021: For Nature and for African People
New York/Addis Ababa, 15th July 2021 - In early March 2021 the seventh African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development (ARFSD7) took place in the Brazzaville, Congo under the theme of
Building forward Better: Towards a resilient and green Africa to achieve the 2030 Goals and Agenda 2063 .
When the ARFSD7 closed, it was clear that Africa had put the green economy at the center of the continent s COVID-19 responses and economic recovery. The ARFSD7 culminated in the consensus key messages document and Brazzavile Declaration as conference outcomes to be implemented by regional governments. The Forum highlights will also be presented at the UN High Level Political Forum in July.
Brazzaville, 4 March 2021 (ECA) – The President of the Republic of Congo – Denis Sassou Nguesso, in his capacity as Chair of the Congo Basin Climate Commission (CBCC) and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Vera Songwe, met on Wednesday in Brazzaville to discuss Africa’s position ahead of Cop26.
The President asked ECA’s Executive Secretary to work with him to build a common African position on pertinent issues pertaining to the continent in the lead-up to the 26
th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, slated for Glasgow in the United Kingdom in November 2021.