Africa Environment Day 2010

摘要

Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 was celebrated as the 8th Africa Environment Day (AED) in accord with the decision madein July, 2001 by the Africa Union (CM/Dec.685 (LXXVI)) that all member States commemorate March 3rd annually tocelebrate the diversity of issues at the nexus of human development and the environment1. The theme for this year’sreflection headquartered in Tanzania is “African Resilience to Climate Change: Biodiversity Conservation and EnhancingTraditional Knowledge.” In 2009, the theme was “Greening Africa” when Senegal hosted the events and focused onadvancing the Great Green Wall initiative that spans eleven countries across the Sahel-Sahara axis2. And in AddisAbaba in 2008, Dr. Stike Mkandla, the United Nations Environment Programme’s representative to the African Unionadmonished that “it is time to get our hands dirty in steps to deal with threats like climate change that face our continentand our communities.3”.