Ouagadougou, 9 October – The Global Forum on Sustainable Development, to be held here from 9 to 11 October, will enable sub-Saharan Africa to continue to consolidate its views on climate change.
 
Two months before the Copenhagen conference which will aim to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new international agreement on climate, the region will review the problems associated with climate change and make concerted efforts to implement a ‘New Green Deal for Africa’.
 
This pact will allow the African continent to gird itself against the consequences of climate change while supporting the development process and working to achieve the MDGs.

Read more – http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2009/october/lafrique-runie-au-burkina-sur-le-thme-des-changements-climatiques-.en