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Global financiers urged to be truthful in fight against climate change
Left to Right: Ms Anita Soina, A Climate Justice Advocate, Ms Serah Makka, ONE Africa Executive Director and Dr John Asafu-Adjaye, Senior fellow, Africa Centre for Economic Transformation during the One Campaign media briefing at the start of the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi Kenya. PHOTO | POOL
Development partners have been urged to honor their promise made in the Paris agreement of investing $100 billion in mitigating Africa’s climate challenges, with experts claiming that since the agreement was enacted in November 2016, no tangible investments have witnessed on the continent.
According to Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the Africa Union Commissioner in charge of Agriculture, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, though African nations are among the most vulnerable to climate change effects, the continent receives a disproportionately small amount of global climate finance compared to other regions.