{"id":33158,"date":"2011-12-13T04:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=33158"},"modified":"2011-12-13T04:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:13:19","slug":"cop-17-africa-day-africas-future-must-be-green-or-thre-will-be-no-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=33158","title":{"rendered":"COP 17 Africa Day: Africa\u2019s future must be green or thre will be no future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur future has to be green or there will be no future, we have no plan B, we shall not give up the fight\u201d, declared Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister while speaking to thousands of delegates that participated at the COP 17 Africa day.\u00a0The 17th conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, popularly known as COP-17, is taking place\u00a0 in Durban, South Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ethiopian Prime minister congratulated the African governments inDurbanfor speaking in \u201cone voice\u201d as he shared \u201cAfrica\u2019s three-fold message to COP 17\u201d.\u00a0First, all efforts must be made to avoid a vacuum after theKyotoprotocol set to expire next year.\u00a0 Secondly, climate financing forAfrica\u2019s mitigation and adaptation efforts must be ensured and finally, he called for continued support of new innovations, entrepreneurship and technology transfer amongst various parties involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur future has to be green or there will be no future, we have no plan B, we shall not give up the fight\u201d, declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[3977,3739,10810],"class_list":["post-33158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-green-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}