Congress addresses climate issues
Coinciding with World Water Day, 22 March, LoCS4Africa gathered delegates from cities across Africa under the theme “Water for Cities.”
LOCAL Governments for Sustainability Africa, in collaboration with Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, recently hosted the Local Climate Solutions for Africa (#LoCS4Africa) 2017: Water & Climate Congress.
The event took place from March 22 to 24 at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre.
Coinciding with World Water Day, March 22, LoCS4Africa gathered delegates from cities across Africa under the theme “Water for Cities”.
Delegates included representatives from various levels of government, academia, development agencies, civil society and the private sector.
Ekurhuleni Mayor, Councillor Mzwandile Masina, in his speech, said: “As we all know, the matter of climate change is among the leading questions of human survival in the 21st century. The world dealt with numerous political threats to human survival in the previous centuries stretching from the devastating effects of slavery and colonialism, the human degradation that came with World Wars One and Two as well as the ever-present threats of nuclear war that were present during the Cold War.
“In the 21st century we have similar but unique global political, humanitarian and ecological questions that underscore the need to think about how to build a better and more sustainable global future. Just as we grapple with concepts of sustainable economies, immigration, global terrorism and various shades of nationalism, we also have to know that we pursue these questions in a natural environment that is under severe ecological pressures.”
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality said: “The African continent faces many sustainability challenges, but none more critical than multiple pressures on the continent’s water resources, such as climate change, burgeoning human populations, ageing and inadequate infrastructure, lack of decisive urban planning and uncertain economic development.”
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