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New York| Sixty-fourth General Assembly Interactive Dialogue
(AM) Economic Committee Holds Dialogue with Senior Officials
from United Nations Regional Commissions on ‘Economic Impacts of
Climate Change’ Panellists Share Perspectives on Region-Specific
Initiatives to Tackle Environmental Degradation, Utilize
Renewable Energy, Reduce Carbon Footprints With the well-being
of the world’s natural resources and physical environment
hanging in the balance, senior officials from the five United
Nations Regional Commissions shed light on their respective
efforts to protect the populations and economies they served
during an interactive dialogue with the Second Committee
(Economic and Financial) this afternoon on “regional
perspectives on the economic impacts of climate change.”
Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA), said the continent contributed less than 4 per
cent of global greenhouse gas emissions but it would