Ouagadougou - Africa, the continent most affected by global warming, has called compensation today, two months before the summit on climate change in Copenhagen, stating that the pollution should pay the industrialized countries.
Request that the least polluting of the continent, but also the poorest, arrived while the last international negotiations on climate.
"For the first time, Africa will have a common position at the summit in Copenhagen," said the African Union Commission President Jacques Ping at the seventh world forum on sustainable development dedicated to climate change.
Ping is set in Uagaduguu said that African leaders agreed on a common position to seek compensation, but did not mention about the amount in question.
President of the Organizing Committee of the Summit, Minister of Burkina Faso Environmental Salifu Savadogo said on Friday that would amount to $ 65 billion was necessary to remove the consequences of climate change in Africa.
"Officials should be engaged to reduce emissions that cause greenhouse effect and to apply the criterion" who pollutes pays this', "said Ping, and welcomed the formation of" new international fund to support poor countries. "
The summit was attended presidents of Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Congo, Mali and Togo.
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