Folks
I don't know what a junk science Mr Kutu Cham is senting to the people. As a the secretary of state for environment telling the press that Gambia does not emit Green House Gas into the atmosphere is a sick Joke. Kotu Cham does failed to acknowledge the fact that every country is an emitter to green house gas into the atmosphere be it significant or insignificant. For insignificant emitter like the Gambia, the climate Frame convention of Rio 1992 which was ratify in Kyoto 1997 mentioned about a development aid package in the name of carbon trading.
Gambia, contribute to green house gases in anthropogenic form ( Human influence to the environment) such as massive deforestation, methane emission from our livestock population, open space dumping of municipal or house hold waste which also contain Methane, fossil fuel burning from cars and electricity generation using fossil fuel etc. It is unfortunate but if there is better methods of collecting quantitative and quantative about the country's green house gases inventory one will reject his hypothesis as not base on scientific fact and grossly misleading. Who knows whether is another anti western feelings peddle by does in power so as to be in the good books of Yahya Jammeh?
Below is the piece from the Observe
Gambia not emitting greenhouse gases’ - SoS Kotu Cham
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Africa » Gambia Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Momodou Kotu Cham , secretary of state for Forestry and the Environment has said that The Gambia did not contribute to the build-up of green house gases in the atmosphere, instead it removes green house gases from the atmosphere due to the forest cover, which serves as a sink of the green house gases.
 
SoS Cham made these remarks at the launching of the UNDP Human Development Report 2007/08 entitled: "Fighting climate change in a divided world", and was held at the Nourished Beach Area of the Atlantic Hotel, an area which was formally covered with sea water but later transformed by the Government Beach Nourishment Project.
 
According the sos, the 1993 green house gas inventory report clearly maintains that an average Gambian absorbs about 44 tons of carbon-dioxide every year from the atmosphere. He added that despite non-contribution to the green house gas build-up in the atmosphere, climate change impacts on the country will include reduction in food production and increased water stress, loss of habitats and wildlife species and additional salt water intrusion into the River Gambia and the continued erosion of the capital city.
 
"We cannot fold our hands and wait for the impacts of climate change to destroy our livelihood and de-rail our developmental path. We have to face the challenges of climate change in two fronts; through mitigation by which we reduce the continued build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and also through adaptation by which we have to re-align and adopt policies and measures that will reduce or alleviate the negative impacts of climate change and make good use off the positive impacts of climate change," he said.
 
SoS Cham noted that, the government of The Gambia has identified measures including attempts in the reduction of the use of fuel wood by adopting appropriate waste management practices such as composting of waste and innovative sand management and the development and implementation of the integrated coastal zone management plan among others .
 
According to him, The Gambia has the political will but requires additional resources and cooperation to successfully participate in the implementation of the convention and its Kyoto Protocol with particular attention to be paid in the activities and projects that have been identified in the national adaptation programme of action .
 
 
by Ebrima Jatta
 

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