In a key preparatory meeting in Nairobi earlier this month, the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change hammered out their priorities for the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 29, ranging from securing a substantial increase in climate finance to ensuring adaptation and loss and damage receive equal footing with mitigation efforts.
The UNFCCC Africa Group of Negotiators meeting, which brought together experts and negotiators from across the continent from Aug. 12-16, will culminate in the development of Africa's official position paper for COP 29.
Speaking during the meeting’s opening, Kenyan Minister for Environment Aden Duale said that climate finance flows to the continent were insufficient; adaptation, loss, and damage have been overshadowed by mitigation; and that as countries are building momentum toward a new set of nationally determined contributions, the African continent has not received sufficient financial and technical support to effectively implement, track, and report on their current NDCs.
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Anthony Langat
Anthony Langat is a Kenya-based Devex Contributing Reporter whose work centers on environment, climate change, health, and security. He was part of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalism’s multi-award winning 2015 investigation which unearthed the World Bank’s complacence in the evictions of indigenous people across the world. He has five years’ experience in development and investigative reporting and has been published by Al Jazeera, Mongabay, Us News & World Report, Equal Times, News Deeply, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Devex among others.
