Global negotiations have failed to keep climate-fueled disasters from wreaking havoc across African nations — with devastating droughts, cyclones, and flooding causing widespread malnutrition, disease outbreaks, and infrastructure destruction.
Leaders across the continent want to ensure crucial conversations around how the world manages climate change occur on African soil, and on their own terms.
And so the first Africa Climate Summit takes place in Nairobi next week — with thousands meeting to craft a continental, unified position in the lead-up to the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 28, in Dubai.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
