Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
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Nairobi – Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will play host to the 29th session of the Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held from December 11 to 22, at a time when the planet is assuaged by a myriad of challenges occasioned by climate change.
The upcoming climate summit presents another great opportunity for leaders and policymakers to examine mechanisms for addressing this existential threat, whose effects are already being felt worldwide.
Speaking exclusively to TUKO.co.ke, Collins Lugongo, an environmentalist, and youth leader, asserts that leaders have a genuine opportunity to move from talk to real action.
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While commenting on the UN Biodiversity Summit (COP16) held in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1, the avid environmentalist stressed the need for global leaders to swiftly implement the Global Biodiversity Framework to save the planet.
“The Cali summit was a major push to protect nature, and it came at the right time. This was the biggest UN meeting on biodiversity in history, and there were plenty of lessons for world leaders to learn from. I believe the participants were presented with a platform to design an inclusive approach that is critical for the declining biodiversity. We must now embark on executing the outcomes of the meeting,” Lugongo told TUKO.co.ke.
Further, Lugongo adds that the Kenyan government under the leadership of President William Ruto ought to prudently use the KSh 15.2 billion (Resilience and Sustainable Fund) of the KSh 78 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding to finance environmental initiatives and cushion disaster-stricken communities in Kenya.
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Lugongo stressed the need for a structured approach and sufficient accountability in government climate finance spending to ease the burden of climate change impacts on vulnerable communities.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
