Lesotho at Convention on Climate Change Conference

This week's United Nations Framework on the Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference in Milan, Italy has heard Lesotho's report on National Climate Change.

A delegate to the UNFCCC, Mr. Moshe Ts'ehlo, said the country's report includes a contribution to the conservation of the global climate; adaptation to climate change as well as approaches to raising awareness to climate change scenarios amongst populations.

The Director of  the Lesotho Meteorology Services (LMS), Mr. Ts'eliso Sekoli,  also illustrated the country's   highly variable climate which negatively affects the natural environment including agriculture, water resources, health, biodiversity, desertification, soils, rangelands and Basotho culture.

Mr. Ts'ehlo is also expected to present before  the conference, a proposal the Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) organisation has prepared to assist local farmers adversely affected by climate change in Lesotho source support from the UNFCCC.

Lesotho signed the UNFCCC at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 and ratified it in February 1995. The Convention aims at stabilising the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere at
a level that will not endanger the existence of life on earth, as these gases have been found to contribute directly to climate change.
9  December 2003