Jean Félix EBO’O, POP Youth Mentor
Climate justice demands that we address the root causes of the climate crisis, including unsustainable production, consumption and trade, all of which are influenced by corporate-led globalization. Real solutions must be based on democratic accountability, ecological sustainability and social justice. The climate crisis requires urgent measures to reduce carbon emissions.
Amis de la Planète du Cameroun (APC) is an environmental association based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and mostly made up of young people. It was created in 2011. Its main objectives are awareness and environmental education. The APC, through its founding President Jean Félix EBO'O, is one of CUNCR's Young Climate Ambassadors after receiving a £500 grant to attend the CUNCR summit in Greece. After extraordinary meetings and field trips by APC members, with regard to the main mission of the APCs, which revolves around awareness raising and environmental education, finds an opportunity to organize a networking activity. Reforestation of a third phase of 3000 trees at the Carbon Footprint Compensation Project for APC in the councils of Okola, Bafia; Esse in Center region; the councils of Meyomessala and Zoetele in South region and the councils of Banka in the West region of Cameroon.
APC intends to organize in the following councils: Okola, Bafia in Center region; the councils of Meyomessala, Zoetele in South region, and the councils of Banka in West region of Cameroon, from March to June 2022, a large reforestation campaign for the Carbon Offset Project. The objective is to reforest 3,000 trees in the above listed councils of four different regions of Cameroon, in order to compensate for the footprint resulting from transportation (airplane, car, bus, train…). That's about 40 tonnes of carbon since the success of the pilot project of 2035 trees in the municipality of Soa.
The process of extension of cultivation areas mainly that of the off-season, the rapid population growth, the decrease of the rainfall, which hinders natural regeneration, are factors which contribute enormously to the degradation of the woody resource in the regions of the country Cameroon. But one of the main causes is the uncontrolled and irreversible cutting of trees for use in timber but especially that wood is the main source of energy. This phenomenon has led to a merciless pressure on the meager woody resources to such an extent that it has begun to be rare. This situation of wood crisis has pushed these populations to harvest timber resources in all forms in the forest reserves, reforestation perimeters and national parks protected by the State.
