SPLM chief whip calls for concerted efforts towards climate mitigation

By Simon Deng

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) chief whip in the national legislative assembly, Rebecca Joshua Okwaci on Monday called for concerted efforts to combat the menacing climate change.

“As for parliament, the oversight, the issue of the budget and the legislation are very important and together with the executive and civil society the issue of climate change needs to be taken up by the country, each needs to take their responsibility so that we move on,” Okwaci said during parliamentary session held in Juba at Freedom Hall.

She was briefing parliament on the UN Climate Change Conference she recently attended in Glasgow.

Okwaci said the climate change conference called on all member countries to push for concerted efforts to address climate related crisis.

“The conference noted that mitigation and adaptation are very important, we need to have empirical data that will help us join the rest of the world, unless we are serious as a country and not only parliament than it will be difficult for us to attain what we want,” she said.

COP27 concluded with a step forward agreement that seeks to provide for loss and damage funding for vulnerable countries hit-hard by either floods, droughts and other climate related disasters.