Africa must remain relentless in demanding fair financing at CoP 29
Time has come for African countries to step up their strategies for demanding fair treatment from developed countries that are responsible for causing global warming and, therefore, climate change. For the last decade and a half or so, African countries have had a unified voice, being too aware that the adverse impacts of climate change cause the most damage to the Continent yet it contributes negligible Green House Gas (GHG) emissions totalling only 4 percent. Taking a unified position during global meetings such as the annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) known as CoPs, forces industrialised countries to pay better attention. Hopefully this will compel them to take concrete action to fulfil their obligations to compensate Africa for the loss and damage emanating from climate change. To be sure, most industrialised countries have acknowledged this reality. In response, the global consensus, in the context of the Paris