Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. February 2011. (Cameroon News) – The Government of Cameroon in a bad to react to global climate changes have decided to put in place a National Observatory on Climate Change.

Cameroon is presently going through a lot of natural turmoil. They are trying to balance between temperatures which are rising dramatically, a desert in the Northern Region which seems to growing monstrously and floods in the Southern Region which are proving to be a disaster that is getting more and more difficult to manage.
All this is in addition to other health calamities like Cholera which is assumed to be an after effect of the non stop rains which have been plaguing the country for over half a year now leading to large scale destruction of agricultural activity as well. Cameroon’s government in a bid to respond to these alarming changes in weather have decided to put in place a National Observatory on Climate Change, which would be directed towards going through the effects that these dramatic changes in weather are causing to the country’s population, agriculture produce and ecosystems, and deciding on the plan of action to be undertaken to combat these global climate changes.

The new body, will be essentially constituted of environmental and climate change experts and will also have adequate representation from civil society and will also include groups that would be working at grassroots levels.
The drive will be directed towards gaining access to “unprecedented data and information for more improved climate change mitigation and adaptation action,” said Pierre Hele, the country’s minister of environment and nature protection, in a speech earlier this month.

The observatory, which has been in the pipeline since 2009, will also “counsel and sensitise the population” of Cameroon on climate change issues, he said, at this juncture when alarming issues pertaining to climate change issues is making an impact across the country.