UN General Assembly
2009

development. The resulting plan is one of the strategic components of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development. It represents a significant contribution by Central Africa to the effort to address the problems related to global warming. Unfortunately, the funds necessary for the programme’s implementation are still lacking. The countries of the region have nonetheless made great progress in forest preservation. Today, Africa requests that the forthcoming Copenhagen Conference consider mechanisms for adaptation, mitigation, capacity-building, technology transfer and financing based on the principle of equity. In Copenhagen, we must take earnest account of the forests, which represent carbon sinks of global importance for regulating and stabilizing our planet’s climate. The economic and financial crisis, whose effects we continue to feel, is the most serious economic recession that the world has experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This crisis should help to raise our awareness. It justifies an overhaul of the international financial architecture and can enable us, through new commitments, to realize the vision of a more unified and equitable world. But time is running