"Morocco is a model country which has capacities and expertise on which it can build," said the Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Amina Benkhadra, who took part in the recently ended Copenhagen summit on climate change at the ministerial level.
The country has started a solar project that was considered an imposition by affected residents, but Benkhadra said it represents an entirely different aspect. "We explained at the ministerial conference this project will help our country to significantly contribute to the development of renewable energies," underlined Mrs. Benkhadra. According to her, Morocco is "today an example in view of its voluntarism policy and its well-thought choice that will allow it to cushion the effects of the greenhouse gas emissions."
Moroccan NGOs are onboard and ready to be involved in the project who considered COP15 a catalyst to launch a Moroccan environmental movement with a local reach. Some experts, whose countries have launched a photovoltaic energy development program, told PANA that Africa expected a lot from the developed countries. "African counties estimate at $65 billion the amount of reparations and compensations related to climate change [to come from developed countries]," according to the organizing committee of the seventh world forum on sustainable development.