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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.
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DREA’s work on environment and natural resources focuses on:
Advancing Africa’s Climate Change Agenda, including supporting Africa’s negotiations on climate change at global level, through facilitation of effective coordination around African Common Position on Climate Change, and formulation of an African Climate Change Strategy;
Enhancing capacities of Member States and RECs to access near-real time environmental, natural resources, and climate information for policy and decision-making, and development planning by improving Africa’s exploitation of earth observation technologies through the implementation of the Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) programme formerly called the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) Program; and operationalizing, in partnership with UNECA and AfDB, the program on Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDEV Africa).