2014 Barbara Ward Lecture
Fatima Denton, the director of the special initiatives division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), said it was time we told the real story about Africa and climate change at IIED's 2014 Barbara Ward Lecture on 20 November. Here's how the event unfolded...
A WEEK TODAY: @Fatima_ACPC will be giving the #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture --> http://www.iied.org/barbara-ward-lectures … pic.twitter.com/NcUYWB1f0p
Preparations are continuing for next week's #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture with @Fatima_ACPC --> http://www.iied.org/barbara-ward-lectures … pic.twitter.com/MflK9u6wRC
Read my latest blog on why @Fatima_ACPC will say it’s time for optimism on Africa & #climatechange http://www.iied.org/room-for-optimism-africa-hopeful-continent … #BarbaraWard2014
The questions are coming in for @Fatima_ACPC ahead of this evening's #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture. What's yours? pic.twitter.com/zSEl6LjQ7U
@IIED #BarbaraWard2014 question: What would @Fatima_ACPC say to LDCs who wish to use their progressive force to foster ambition?
LIVE: From 6pm, we will be providing live coverage of the #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture with @Fatima_ACPC --> http://www.iied.org/join-us-online-discuss-rewriting-narrative-africa-climate-change …
Setting up @britishlibrary for @iieds #barbaraward2014 lecture with Fatima Denton. It's going to be great. pic.twitter.com/nGKHaGnsem
Off to interview @Fatima_ACPC ahead of her @IIED #BarbaraWard2014 lecture tonight at the British Library.
STAGE SET: The conference centre @britishlibrary is ready for #BarbaraWard2014 and @Fatima_ACPC pic.twitter.com/F00by94ged- Barbara Ward was a pioneering economist, writer & lecturer. Find out more about her life --> http://www.iied.org/iied-founder-barbara-ward … #BarbaraWard2014
- SLIDESHOW: As guests start to arrive for #BarbaraWard2014, this is what is being shown on the screen outside --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijab_aOty9I …
- VIDEO: Why do we celebrate Barbara Ward? Watch this film --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiYE4setnsI&index=4&list=PL1iUHL94bWo4KagG8LOyhxQxuuf4PIWYc … #BarbaraWard2014
- FILM: The #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture will begin soon. This is the inspirational video attendees are currently watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-54VWE4-mpc …
- #BarbaraWard2014 starts soon. We'll be providing live coverage on here throughout. @IIED director @CamillaIIED to open the lecture…
#BarbaraWard2014 Fatima Denton lecture about to start looking forward to hear her vision of Africa responding to c/c pic.twitter.com/v9SOdmAbmT
At #BarbaraWard2014 outstanding women in development lecture by Dr Fatima Denton dir of special initiatives at UN economic commission Africa- And we're off. @CamillaIIED welcomes guests to #BarbaraWard2014 explaining these lectures celebrate outstanding women in development
Barbara Ward lecture finally underway. @CamillaIIED just welcoming @Fatima_ACPC to the stage! #BarbaraWard2014
Fatima Denton's paradox of Africa "standing in the river but dying of thirst" #barbaraward2014- Time has come for Africa to seize climate change as a business opportunity says @Fatima_ACPC #Barbaraward2014…
- Opportunity that will come with sustained growth, new technologies+job creation in agriculture, water and energy sectors #BarbaraWard2014
- #Climate change one of the most compelling + defining challenges of 21st century. Also one of the greatest opportunities #BarbaraWard2014
Climate change offers the opportunity to draw up a new social contract #Barbaraward2014 says @Fatima_ACPC
Collective human security is in our DNA. Fatima Denton on Africa and climatechange. #barbaraward2014
'Viewing climate change in Africa as a business opportunity, with new technologies, investment portfolios' Fatima Denton #BarbaraWard2014
Fatima Denton:Africa's climate change narrative must be owned & reframed & include history, colonialism & natural resources.#BarbaraWard2014- African agriculture poorly integrated with other sectors #BarbaraWard2014
- Africa battling against climate change impacts, witnessed through agricultural losses amounting to 2-7% of GDP #BarbaraWard2014
Africa needs to become more food secure says @Fatima_ACPC #BarbaraWard2014 pic.twitter.com/ZgU5eUFFnm- Fatima quotes @WorldBank report 'Africa could be on the brink of an economic take-off, much like China was 30 years ago' #BarbaraWard2014
- Agriculture is poorly integrated with global markets in Africa says Fatima Denton @IIED @lizcarabine #BarbaraWard2014
- FD: post independence still been resource exporter. Agriculture not well integrated with other sectors. #BarbaraWard2014
- #BarbaraWard2014 Therefore it is crucial that the agriculture industry follows this and for this Africa needs energy Denton says.
- Africa has also been witness to, though not a generator of huge growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere #BarbaraWard2014
From 'Africa the hopeless continent' to 'Africa rising' in 10 years, but climate change threatens development #BarbaraWard2014 @IIED
"How does Africa move from the periphery of the globalised economy? Through low carbon technologies." #BarbaraWard2014 @IIED
Africa needs to seek new avenues for growth #BarbaraWard2014 pic.twitter.com/RifumKPDc1
Fatima #BarbaraWard2014 need new paradigm for Africa recognising finite nature of #naturalresources
Fatima Denton: 'there is no atmospheric space for an #African industrial revolution' @IIED #barbaraward2014 #climatechange #sustainability- .@Fatima_ACPC explains that Africa can channel and promote new green and blue low carbon development #BarbaraWard2014
Fatima Denton's vision for Africa come out of the periphery is based on low carbon socially just path #Barbaraward2014- VIDEO: @Fatima_ACPC says Africa needs more food security --> http://instagram.com/p/vobpiqnvJa #BarbaraWard2014
- @Fatima_ACPC at #BarbaraWard2014: Africa can be #climate leader post 2015. Msg going into @LimaCop20 ?
- The state is absent in many mitigation and adaptation sectors, eg energy, water. Climate change demands public engagement. #BarbaraWard2014
'Climate governance in Africa calls for greater emphasis on equity' - UN's Fatima Denton at #BarbaraWard2014- Denton says Ethiopia plans to decarbonise by 2022. Why is this not big news? #barbaraward2014
'10 million trees for 10 million people' - the Benin plan for reforestation for mitigation and adaptation. #barbaraward2014- Fatima explains the importance of climate science + need for it to be catalyst to drive adaption and mitigation activities #BarbaraWard2014
- Time for Africa to align on mitigation pathway as well as adaptation #Barbaraward2014
#BarbaraWard2014 Fatima Denton streses the importance of climate science to underin decisions on climate change in Africa.
Impressed to hear Benin plants one tree per inhabitant. Time to think differently about Africa and climate change @IIED #BarbaraWard2014- Uganda making great strides in organic food market due to low use of artificial fertilisers #BarbaraWard2014 @IIED
- Africa has world's largest potential for carbon free energy -sun wind geothermal #barbaraward2014
- Africa should move towards sustainable and renewable sources of energy says Fatima at #BarbaraWard2014
- "Africa accounts for 4% of global electricity generation, but 15% of the global population. What a mismatch." #BarbaraWard2014
- #BarbaraWard2014 3rd area is energy and unleashing agricultural potential. Only 10% arable area used for food, only 6% irrigated.
Fatima Denton 'place state back at centre of development in Africa' #BarbaraWard2014 lecture @IIED pic.twitter.com/psaT3ZDehZ- Women and youth single largest untapped potential in Africa #barbaraward2014
- Africa has vast solar, biomass & wind resources: Cape Verde aims to generate 50% of its energy from renewables @Fatima_ACPC #BarbaraWard2014
- Importance of investing in people. African richness not only comes from it's natural resources but from it's people #BarbaraWard2014
- What an exciting prospect.Denton says "Africa could become custodian of the world" - it's where we all came from #barbaraward2014
- VIDEO: @Fatima_ACPC compares Africa's energy consumption to its population #BarbaraWard2014 --> http://instagram.com/p/vob_1cHvLk
- Rwanda has successfully shown how to leapfrog technogies such as information tech #Barbaraward2014
.@Fatima_ACPC's new narrative for Africa: 1 New governance 2 Bold leadership 3 Energy 4 Investing in people 5 Sci & tech #barbaraward2014- UN's Fatima Denton: Africa has 60% of the world's arable land yet hunger persists. #BarbaraWard2014
- Must act to seize opportunity for international cooperation. Need strong enough current to lift all the boats #BarbaraWard2014
- Denton "despite the flows, bends and turns of the river, Africa has limitless potential" #barbaraward2014
The inspiring voice of Fatima Denton 'Africa has limitless potential to win the climate fight' #BarbaraWard2014 @IIED
Applause greets the end of @Fatima_ACPC's #BarbaraWard2014 lecture, and the Q&A begins... pic.twitter.com/iqJaakMruR- Now Rebeca Grynspan, Chair of @IIED board of trustees takes to the stage to close #BarbaraWard2014 and start the Q&A session...
- Should countries discovering minerals and oil and gas extract them now? #Barbaraward2014
- UN's Fatima Denton: Extractive industries damage the environment but benefit few African communities. #BarbaraWard2014
- Ecosystem question fundamental says @Fatima_ACPC #BarbaraWard2014
- Restoring balance of ecosystem services way to go says Fatima but at the scale needed #BarbaraWard2014
- #BarbaraWard2014 "private sector needs to be sensitised".... Or taxed?!
- China and USA seem to be converging on a climate change agreement. How will this affect Africa? Asks a delegate at #BarbaraWard2014
- Fatima explains she welcomes China and US taking proactive stance on climate change #BarbaraWard2014
- What would it take to have a common African approach in climate change negotiations? #BarbaraWard2014. Starts with confidence says Fatima
- Africa group becoming more confident in unfccc #Barbaraward2014 but under-represented says @Fatima_ACPC
- African negotiators have to play a 'jack of all trades role' in negotiations explains @Fatima_ACPC #BarbaraWard2014
- Fatima Denton name checks @cdknetwork as important actor in supporting Africa in climate negotiations #BarbaraWard2014 @KiranSura_x
- .@IIED's Simon Anderson talks about experiences in Tighrey in Ethiopia - farmers using climate science #Barbaraward2014
- Denton "Africa suffers an asymmetry, it goes into negotiations with far fewer experts" #barbaraward2014
- Another question: is it possible to connect two chapters? Women+youth and stronger governance? #BarbaraWard2014
- Issue on governance not just African problem says Fatima - especially in relation to climate change #BarbaraWard2014
- Refreshing to see African youth more involved in climate change issues #BarbaraWard2014 How can we own the problem? Ask African young people
- Delegate from @FarmAfrica asks what small thing can civil society do to build on other opportunities? #BarbaraWard2014
- Civil society beginning to really have a voice in Africa + can start calling governments to order says Fatima in response #BarbaraWard2014
- #BarbaraWard2014 question: What would @Fatima_ACPC say to LDCs who wish to use their progressive force to foster ambition? asks @envoyjarju
- Countries can come together around a climate change issue. Eg Nordic and progressive African countries #barbaraward2014
- .@RGrynspan summarises how to change the narrative including women, triple wins, ecosystems, private sector and values #BarbaraWard2014
- @Fatima_ACPC asks can the Green Climate Fund support women in Africa to take more entrepreneurial bigger business opps? #BarbaraWard2014
- Women not the problem they are a big part of the solution says @RGrynspan #BarbaraWard2014
- "This system conspires against women - locks them into micro products. I want to see women doing big business" @Fatima_ACPC #barbaraward2014
- Not everything can go through the COP. It is too adversarial. Progressive countries can and must find areas of agreement. #BarbaraWard2014
That's it for the #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture. Here are some key points from @Fatima_ACPC pic.twitter.com/Dd8GggPCty- An inspiring & inspired #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture. My thanks to all at @IIED, our guests, Board of Trustees, @Fatima_ACPC & @RGrynspan.
NEWS: Hundreds discuss rewriting the narrative on Africa & #climatechange -> http://www.iied.org/hundreds-discuss-rewriting-narrative-africa-climate-change … #BarbaraWard2014 pic.twitter.com/QJKwprKPUy- VIDEO: Watch @Fatima_ACPC's entire #BarbaraWard2014 Lecture on rewriting narrative of #Africa & #climatechange --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oV7XlOD1I …
