{"id":6823,"date":"2023-09-06T19:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:26:57","slug":"africa-climate-summit-adopts-nairobi-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/africa-climate-summit-adopts-nairobi-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa climate summit adopts &#8216;Nairobi declaration&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A landmark African climate summit ended on Wednesday after leaders adopted a declaration highlighting the continent&#8217;s potential as a green powerhouse, Kenyan President William Ruto said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We march on with the Nairobi declaration,&#8221; said Ruto, bringing the three-day conference to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had pushed for a narrative shift in the talks, focusing on Africa&#8217;s switch to clean energy even as the continent reels from climate-related disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This declaration will serve as a basis for Africa&#8217;s common position in the global climate change process,&#8221; the final version of the document seen by AFP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts say a united African voice could generate momentum for a series of key gatherings leading to a crunch UN climate summit starting in November, including the G20 meeting in New Delhi this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The declaration calls for &#8220;a new financing architecture that is responsive to Africa&#8217;s needs including debt restructuring and relief&#8221;, as frustration mounts over the high cost of financing on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also asks rich carbon polluters to honour long-standing climate pledges to poorer nations and urges world leaders to back a proposed &#8220;carbon tax on fossil fuel trade, maritime transport and aviation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 54-nation continent is acutely vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change, but the summit largely focused on calls to unlock investment in clean energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A new Africa is there and it means business,&#8221; Ruto said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summit saw funding pledges worth $23 billion &#8220;for green growth, mitigation and adaptation efforts&#8221; across the continent, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing visions of the world&#8217;s energy future are likely to play out at the COP28 talks in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, where the world will take stock of the as-yet-inadequate efforts to slash planet-heating emissions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark African climate summit ended on Wednesday after leaders adopted a declaration highlighting the continent&#8217;s potential as a green powerhouse, Kenyan President William Ruto said. &#8220;We march on with the Nairobi declaration,&#8221; said Ruto, bringing the three-day conference to a close. He had pushed for a narrative shift in the talks, focusing on Africa&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}