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UN CLIMATE SUMMIT: KIKWETE PUSHES FOR CARBON MITIGATION

President Jakaya Kikwete has told a United Nations meeting that the world's top emitters of carbon must take action and not leave Africa to confront climate change consequences single handedly.

He told the UN General Assembly here that the African continent was the least emitter yet it faces significant consequences of what is put in the air from elsewhere by powerful economies.

President Kikwete was presenting a common position for Africa on climate change as the leader of the Conference of African Heads of State on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) at the UN Climate Summit.

It was a one-day meeting hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and open to leaders of all 193 UN member states. President Kikwete's appeal was emphatic.