Kenyan climate scientist Joyce Kimutai during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 15, 2024. "If the world was listening to science, maybe we wouldn't be doing these COPs," the 36-year-old Kenyan climate scientist told AFP on the sidelines of this year's UN forum in Azerbaijan. Without this money, developing countries say they will struggle to move to clean energy, and adapt as climate shocks intensify. Kimutai understands the price of climate inaction better than most huddled inside windowless negotiating rooms in a sports stadium in Baku for COP29. At COP29, Kimutai is advising the Kenyan government as it pushes for a deal that commits wealthy nations most responsible for climate change to better help out poorer nations.

Source: Daily Nation November 16, 2024 11:51 UTC