le temps des Réalisations
Bulletin mensuel bilingue d'informations – N° 30 novembre – décembre 2015
Cabinet Civil de la Présidence de la République du Cameroun
Récépissé de déclaration N° 00000038 / RDDJ / J06 / BASC du 9 juillet 2012
Directeur de Publication : Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU
# Paul BIYA en action
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# CERAC
20 ans d'échange et de partage pour des résultats éloquents
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Nations Unies
Conférence sur les Changements Climatiques 2015
COP21/CMP11
Paris, France
Le Temps des Réalisations
EDITORIAL
# The Need for a New Solidarity
Martin BELINGA EBOUTOU
Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic
It is rather unusual. 195 countries, in unison, took a bold step recently in Paris to join together in the fight against climate change.
Unbelievably, an agreement was concluded on this occasion, fruit of the rare convergence of views amongst the Nations. President Paul BIYA delivered the voice of Cameroon, forcefully and pertinently.
He, the Head of a State which harbours part of the second largest lung of the planet, had to remind the global conscience that the Congo forest deserved greater attention and protection, from everyone.
He also could not miss the opportunity to draw the attention of the entire world to the tragic situation of Lake Chad, which is gradually and inexorably drying off, at the peril of millions of human lives, spread out in the five neighbouring countries.
The fact is that the earth speaks to us. Nature, which the human race is seeking to subvert more and more every day, is sending to us harrowing and supreme warnings. It is cautioning us on the thoughtlessness of our behaviour. The stakes are high. There is danger in the house. The risk of drowning is collective.
Have we not learnt from the philosopher Bacon that we can only command nature by obeying it?
Thereby we are today, big and small, powerful and weak, rich and poor, all of us, stuck to the same fate in a planet that is smoking, burning, at the brink, as we have been told by the experts, of the irreparable. The planet, our planet is crying to us to obey it...
The conclusions of the COP21 sound like the inner call of the conscience. Humanity cannot continue to overlook the common good that is the planet earth, without being drawn, like a spiralling boat, into collective suicide.
This is the global challenge, well known to all by now, one must believe. And more than simply believe, we have to act in solidarity. Yes, in solidarity.
There is in fact, in our world today, a real need for greater universal solidarity. Global warming is a timely reminder to us. But this imperative comes just when other global problems are in play, such as security and peace, social and economic progress, education and culture, migrations, etc.
Centred on the human person, who is also the ultimate beneficiary,