The increasingly global interdependence calls for collective actions to address global environmental challenges.
Collective and decisive actions are thus required to address the increasing dangers of permanent environmental damage resulting from greenhouse gases (especially C02) leading to global warming, the inexorable loss of biodiversity resulting in part from the destruction of tropical rain forests, and the worsening poverty and economic crisis.
HATOF actively participates in multilateral Environmental forums including the Climate Change Convention, Convention on Biological Diversity, and Convention to Combat Desertification, where it provides policy and technical support to key stakeholders based on experience from on-ground actions and science.
We particularly contributed to the framing and adoption of continental and global policy frameworks– including the Paris Climate Agreement and NDCs, Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, land degradation neutrality, the Africa Union Agenda 2063, and African Charter on Maritime security and safety and development in Africa.
At the forums, HATOF collaborates with relevant stakeholders to organise side events and exhibitions. The object is always to showcase deliberate actions of government, civil society organisations, and private sector in addressing global environmental challenges, and to leverage partnership for upscaling and out scaling actions. We also support policy-makers to align national development objectives and policies with global policy frameworks based on national priorities, needs and capabilities.
Increasing global interdependence demands collective and decisive actions to tackle environmental challenges like greenhouse gas emissions causing global warming, biodiversity loss due to tropical rainforest destruction, and worsening poverty and economic crises.
