{"id":297,"date":"2011-11-30T02:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/?p=297"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:57:44","slug":"sokona9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/2011\/11\/30\/sokona9\/","title":{"rendered":"Youba Sokona on the barriers in Africa for jump-start development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=5jbuKeVd90q1JAfMvMSpTw iframe=false]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Youba Sokona of Ethiopia, the coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) based in the UN Economic Commission for Africa, discusses the need for a new global paradigm. He also explains the opportunity Africa faces to embark of \u201cjump-start\u201d sustainable development due to the primary stages of development the continent is currently in. He names the four biggest barriers to this solution: political will, institutions, finance and short-term focus. He then provides examples for how each of these barriers can be broken. <\/p>\n<p><em>Interviewed by Elena Capaldi, Maggie Rees and Emily Bowie on November 30, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=5jbuKeVd90q1JAfMvMSpTw iframe=false] Dr. Youba Sokona of Ethiopia, the coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) based in the UN Economic Commission for Africa, discusses the need for a new global paradigm. He also explains the opportunity Africa faces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/2011\/11\/30\/sokona9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25622,2854,1657,49978,55885],"tags":[55888,55776,34284,25625,55883,42599,55890,25703,55783,55778,55889,55886],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-capacity-building","category-development","category-funding","category-igo","tag-acpc","tag-development-2","tag-elena-capaldi","tag-emily-bowie","tag-ethiopia","tag-finance","tag-institutions","tag-maggie-rees","tag-political-will","tag-short-term","tag-uneca","tag-youba-sokona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}