{"id":9085,"date":"2024-06-03T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T08:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.folkecenter.net\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2024-09-04T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T10:10:31","slug":"webinar-the-great-green-wall-africas-answer-to-climate-change-problems-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkecenter.net\/da\/webinar-the-great-green-wall-africas-answer-to-climate-change-problems-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar:\u00a0The Great Green Wall: Africa’s answer to climate change problems (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A webinar that shed light on the inspiring Great Green Wall Initiative in Africa. This innovative project aims to combat climate change, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss by creating a belt of forested areas across various regions of Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We invited all those interested in environmental conservation, sustainable development, and Africa’s challenges in the face of climate change to participate to the webinar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And 25 people did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jane Kruse, Director at Nordic Folkecenter welcomed the participants, and thanked the speakers for their time to present at the webinar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hereafter Daniele Pagani, Capacity Building Coordinator at Nordic Folkecenter, introduced Ibrahim Togola, founder of Mali-Folkecenter Nyetaa, and his presentation “Energising the Great Green Wall Initiative through the adoption and Combining Renewable Energy and AgroEcology \u2013 the case of Agrivoltaic promotion by Mali-Folkecenter Nyetaa in Mali”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibrahim Togola presented AgroVoltaic-projects and stated that all PV panels in Africa should have some sort of relation to agriculture. But most important is working with a nexus of renewable energies and other actions to compensate for the consequenses of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then Dr. Elvis Paul Nfor Tangem, coordinator of the Great Green Wall Initiative (hereafter GGWI) took over the screen, and told about the foundation of the GGWI, which among other things was, that in these times it’s essential that the African countries think as a unit, and not individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GGWI is a collection of initatives, where knowledge transfer and capability building is very important for future work. Though the GGWI is better said than done – it costs a lot of money; though not as the FIFA World Cup in Qatar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Estimated costs to attain the 2023 midterm target of 100 million hectares stands between 36 an 53 billion USD. This may sound a lot until when one learns that the cost of organizing the FIFA World Cup in Qatar stands at USD 200-220 billion, for a month-long game”<\/p>\nDr. Elvis Paul Nfor Tangem, slideshow<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Last, but not least, Ruth Kiwanuka, CEO of JEEP Uganda presented her part “Tree Conservation and Planting Initiative in Uganda”. The participants was introduced to JEEP Folkecenter, and their focus on tree planting, creating jobs, empowering women and creating awareness. Uganda has had a great reduction in forest, as to the need of biomass – a loss counting 1,03 million hactares of tree cover in a 21 year period. JEEP is working to restore the tree cover in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with Ibrahim Togola and Elvis Paul Nfor Tangem, Ruth Kiwanuka, stated that training, capacity building and knowledge transfer is essential for the work of trying to overcome the climate changes in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The time was short, when Ruth Kiwanuka ended her presentation; though there was enough time to initiate partnerships among the presenters and participants – e-mail adresses were shared, and suddently the webinar became a platform for networking and concept development in what hopefully will become valuable future partnerships and an addition of Uganda in the GGWI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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