{"id":765098,"date":"2019-12-14T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/minister-creecy-says-cop25-reports-show-the-worst-is-yet-to-come\/"},"modified":"2019-12-14T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T17:43:34","slug":"minister-creecy-says-cop25-reports-show-the-worst-is-yet-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/14\/minister-creecy-says-cop25-reports-show-the-worst-is-yet-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Creecy says COP25 reports show the worst is yet to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Madrid – Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy has urged countries not to “abandon their quest to promote ambition in their search for compromises into climate change”.<\/p>\n

Creecy was addressing journalists on the last day of the closing session of United Nations (UN) COP25 meeting in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Creecy, who was also chairing the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), said adaptation finance remains crucial for Africa\u2019s people in the face of deteriorating living conditions as a result of extreme weather phenomena associated with climate change.<\/p>\n

“Scientific reports presented during the course of this conference strongly indicate that worse is yet to come,” she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe African continent remains convinced that all three global goals in the Paris Agreement must be advanced with equal determination. Across Africa, research is indicating that countries are already spending between two and nine percent, on average, of their GDP on adaptation measures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n