The Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) is a global organization that is responsible for the sharing of new technologies developed by already industrialized nations with countries that are now in the process of expanding their economy and industrializing their nation. The goal of the EGTT is to provide these growing countries with the most efficient and environmentally friendly tools that will allow them to create the most environmentally safe products and facilities possible. Each year the EGTT files a report on its work and advancements of the previous year and make recommendations for the coming year to the Subsidiary Body for the Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), a working body of the UNFCCC. The EGTT helps to create an earth friendly focus in developing nations. While I was attending the UNFCCC Childrens Climate Forum session at the conference, I heard firsthand from young students living in developing nations all over the world about what their countries were doing to combat climate change. I spoke one on one with a young man named Kondwani who told me about some of the green projects in his home country of Namibia, where there has been extensive deforestation. Kondwani told me that many students in his high school once a year help to replenish Namibia's forests by participating in a tree planting season led by a local children's hospitial. Kondwani also told me that every school in Namibia is required by the government to recycle, and every day in the month of September each student is asked to come to school with something to recycle from home. These are just a few examples of the many things that people all over the world are doing to combat climate change.
A Month's Neglect
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I hate to say it's been over a month since I last posted. My dad asked me
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8 comments:
I recently read an article about overpopulation in developing countries where a lot of people are in poverty. I am curious to know in what ways EGTT could help these developing countries. I do not know if new technologies that are earth friendly could improve third world countries economies because of the poverty that they are facing. I do not think that the majority of the people would be able to afford these environmental friendly technologies, unless they were fairly cheep.
Like Angelina I have recently been reading articles on overpopulation in developing countries. Mr. Carlson has been saying that humans have "Opposable thumbs" and they will be the reason that we change because our brains are smarter to change these problems. I am amazed that these countries are trying to help and change the big problem of climate change. I think that America should be right along side the EGTT group. I believe that if we as a nation recycle and plant a tree we will see changes in our world. I do not think that the majority of America will do it because like Angelina said I don' t think our nation can afford these environmental friendly technologies unless we make them cheap and affordable. I have a question about what other nations are trying EGTT? and Have Namibia kept up recycling and planting trees?
I have also read the overpopulation articles. This is a very interesting study. Deforestation is a major problems in nations all over the world. It is really neat that in Nambia it is vital to recycle, or how the high schools do an annual tree planting project. That is so neat! If only everybody could just that much and put fourth effort to one day combat climate change.
This is really cool! I feel that it is a good thing to have younger people talking about their countries issues. The fact that the government makes their schools recycle is pretty interesting. I remember when we read that article on if recycling was actually good or bad for the environment. It seems to me that those economies and governments that have decided to have all of their schools recycle probably do not agree with that!
Like the rest of the commentators, I read the overpopulation articles on developing countries as well. After reading your post, I began thinking about developing countries as a whole. I thought if we could get other developing countries that are experiencing exponential growth in their population to start doing environmentally friendly things such as plant trees, etc., like the Namibia people are doing, couldn't we make this process go a lot faster?
Within COP there are sessions on how the world can help finance climate solutions meaning that how will the developed countries help out less developed countries to be able to pay for what they need to build to battle climate solutions or just shift from using cars to bikes and many other things. It's really difficult to get the developed nations on board with this. Although it is their responsibilty I'm affraid that nothing can really be done unless a policy is made and a specific country signs on. But even then there are not penalties for not doing the right thing. So it's really very very difficult to get coperation from those with money to help finance.
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