The report shows that governments could address the root causes of inequalities and build climate change resilience. But it suggests that governments have been negligent in not closing the gap between rich and poor, putting their own people in harms way.
The Council of Ministers is now expected to make tangible proposals on how to secure the work undertaken or yet to be done under the EAC Climate Change Programme including the possibility of creating a budget line for the same.
Work on the text of the Paris 2015 universal climate agreement will continue when climate experts, civil society and environment ministers meet in Bonn Germany.
The African Development Bank has given a grant worth $8.37million (2.6billion Shillings) to boost climate resilience projects in flood prone areas along Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda.
