Africa: Global Leaders Urged to Scale Up Support for the Great Blue Wall Initiative

Global leaders attending the conference on climate change taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, have expressed enthusiasm and pledged to accelerating action on the Great Blue Wall initiative.

It aims to create interconnected, protected, and conserved marine areas to counter the effects of climate change and global warming in the Western Indian Ocean region. The President underscored the need for all to"stop talking about the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean," and instead"talk about the one ocean we must protect."

Other high-level speakers included Amb. Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Oceans; Nigel Topping; UNFCCC High-Level Climate Champion, Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum and representatives from the United Nations General Assembly, and officials from the governments of Kenya and Mozambique.

"Oceans are the world's largest heat sink; they absorb around 90% of the excess heat caused by climate change and they are also very efficient carbon sinks, absorbing 23% of human-caused carbon emissions," said Mr. Mohieldin.

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