By Bisola Adeyemo
At the ongoing COP26 conference in Glasgow, Namibia places several multi-sectoral policies to achieve Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change objectives.
Minister of Environment and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta, said Wednesday at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland.
Also, Xinhua news agency reported that Namibia pledges Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
The official said “The most important ones are Vision 2030, which includes goals related to water resources, agriculture production and forest management; and the third National Action Program for Namibia to implement the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (NAP3) 2014-2022, with its six LDN targets “
“Namibia has also taken a drastic step to ensure that the three Rio Conventions are adequately addressed in the climate change plan under the Paris agreement,” he added.
The three Rio conventions are the three UN conventions formed during the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, also known as the Rio Earth Summit.
According to Shifeta, this is the agenda that Namibia is advocating in terms of implementing initiatives that are in line with the Call to Action on Living Lands that have multiple benefits towards achieving the three Rio Conventions.
“We are very much optimistic that the Call for Action on Living Lands and ultimately the implementation of the three Rio Conventions in Namibia will be a success moving forward,” he added.