The global climate summit, COP 28, gets underway today, President William Ruto is expected to lead the African delegation and to an extent the Global South leaders to push for among others, reparations, a suitable financial architecture, and draw a plan on how the developing nations will address climate change.
Dr Ruto has emerged as Africa's Diplomat-In-Chief championing the cause of climate change and calling attention to economic vagaries in Africa and the global South. He leads the Africa delegation of the continental agenda as AU's Chair of the Climate Change Presidential Summit sub-committee.