Gambia, one of the world’s least polluting nations, is setting the bar high. If it can come up with a plan to curb its greenhouse gas emissions then there’s no excuse for any other nation not to do likewise.

An article on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation explains how the Gambian government is working out how it will contribute to a new global deal to tackle climate change which will be negotiated in Paris at the end of 2015.

Gambia is responsible for just 0.05 percent of the world’s emissions. It plans to reduce these emissions through a range of activities, including introducing agroforestry and improved soil management, using solar and wind energy for rural electrification, reducing power loss during transmission, recovering gases from landfills and composting waste.

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries have been invited to submit an ‘intended nationally determined contribution’ (INDC), setting out what they will do to combat global warming, in advance of the Paris climate talks.

Gambia has received assistance from Germany and the UK-based Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) in developing its plan and initial results show it could cut emissions 25 to 30 percent by 2030 from 2000 levels.

The article outlines how some developing countries, including Mexico and Gabon, are including planned adaptation measures in their INDCs, such as planting trees on farms to conserve water, boost yields and store more carbon.

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