Time for Africa to act decisively to stem climate change threats

Rusted wash trough and taps. [iStockphoto]

As the world gears up for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), we are alive to the layered crises that the planet is facing, necessitating urgent, grand action. Nowhere in the world is this more apparent than in Africa. 

In this continent and Kenya, to be specific, the climate crisis is manifesting itself in myriad interconnected ways. We are witnesses to failure of rains, threatening our food security and accentuating our energy fragility. This layers on an economy emerging from the ravages of Covid-19, and effects of historical development deficit in many Global South countries.