Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NDJAMENA604
2009-12-17 16:20:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ndjamena
Cable title:
CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000604
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C AND S/USSES
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - BAIN AND KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV CD
SUBJECT: CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED
REF: STATE 123998
UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000604
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C AND S/USSES
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - BAIN AND KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV CD
SUBJECT: CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED
REF: STATE 123998
1. (U) Per reftel, Post has distributed E-journals and other
materials related to the ongoing climate change conference in
Copenhagen to officials and civil society reps in N'Djamena. We
have detected considerable interest in this subject among Chadians,
given environmental challenges including deforestation and
degradation of Lake Chad locally.
2. (U) Chad's delegation to the Copenhagen conference has been
hewing to the general line of other African nations, on grounds that
climate change is seen as hitting hard here. Al-Jazeerra reports of
Cop-15 are being followed very widely, and there have been reports
of the conference in the local media - unusual, as all Chad-based
print media focus almost exclusively on internal politics. One
local paper, le Temps, expressed the hope that Lake Chad would
receive attention in Copenhagen, while another, N'Djamena Bi-Hebdo,
used a cartoon to satirize the Chadian government's focus on recent
rebel incursions in the East, when the gravest problem facing the
nation, in the view of the editorial cartoonist, was climate change.
LNIGRO
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C AND S/USSES
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - BAIN AND KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV CD
SUBJECT: CLIMATE CHANGE MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED
REF: STATE 123998
1. (U) Per reftel, Post has distributed E-journals and other
materials related to the ongoing climate change conference in
Copenhagen to officials and civil society reps in N'Djamena. We
have detected considerable interest in this subject among Chadians,
given environmental challenges including deforestation and
degradation of Lake Chad locally.
2. (U) Chad's delegation to the Copenhagen conference has been
hewing to the general line of other African nations, on grounds that
climate change is seen as hitting hard here. Al-Jazeerra reports of
Cop-15 are being followed very widely, and there have been reports
of the conference in the local media - unusual, as all Chad-based
print media focus almost exclusively on internal politics. One
local paper, le Temps, expressed the hope that Lake Chad would
receive attention in Copenhagen, while another, N'Djamena Bi-Hebdo,
used a cartoon to satirize the Chadian government's focus on recent
rebel incursions in the East, when the gravest problem facing the
nation, in the view of the editorial cartoonist, was climate change.
LNIGRO