April 20, 2024

 

Cameroon to reduce emissions by 35% by 2030

#Cameroon has set forth ambitious targets to reduce emissions by 35% by 2030, relative to the 2010 baseline. This is only eight years away & urgency for transformative but accessible investments that can be applied by ordinary citizens of the informal sector that forms up to 90% of the working population is critical. Accordingly, one of the sectors targeted by the country is waste - where the country aims to establish composting units in 10 regions, enhance methane capture from landfills etc., where composting pits will reduce the amount of organic waste that ends up in landfills to cause methane emissions. Accordingly, through Innovative Volunteerism, skilled young people & young at heart have been engaged to retool their skills & engage in compost production. They have worked with local communities, trained them in waste categorization, clustered them into groups of cooperatives for traceability. They engage in collecting organic waste & supplying it to compost sites for processing. The resultant compost manure is marketed to generate income & also applied to farms to enhance yields. Through this Innovative Volunteerism approach, the community is investing at their level in helping Cameroon actualize its climate commitments, even as they create enterprise opportunities for themselves. This is how we provide 90% of economic players opportunities to invest in climate action from an enterprise dimension that has market longevity. Congratulations boma Mohammed chi Chinelum Dilivio Boma You show that when a structured approach is leveraged and guidance provided, transformational #climateaction can be driven for the collective benefit of the communities. This is the power of #EBAFOSA #innovativevolunteerism Matthias NAAB United Nations Youth Association of Cameroon (UNYA-Cameroon)