This is the Second Communication, prepared over 3 years since October 2006, also under the financial support of the GEF and UNDP Bujumbura serving as the Executing Agency. We remain grateful for their fundamental support.

This Second National Communication follows the National Adaptation Plan (PANA) published in 2007. In addition to the Second Greenhouse Gas Inventory, it covers greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and climate change adaptation measures that Burundi has already initiated and those that have not yet been initiated, which await external support for their implementation; the country has other challenges it faces for its socio-economic development in terms of health, food security, sustainable peace and education.. We warmly thank the National Communications Support Programme for its commendable contribution to the improvement of our second greenhouse gas inventory and the corrections made to this final document.

This communication was finalized the day after the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 7 to 18 December 2009, on which countries affected by climate change, including Burundi, eagerly awaited the adoption of the post-Kyoto regime that was more restrictive and more reassuring for the survival of humanity.