African heads want big polluters to pay up climate change pledges

President Paul Kagame arrives for the Africa Climate Summit at the KICC in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

African leaders are confident about the continent's potential for renewable energy, even as they sustained calls to the world's mega-emitters to honour their financial pledges in fighting climate change.

Heads of State and Government who spoke on the second day of the Africa Climate Summit said it was unjust for African nations to suffer the most from climate change yet the big polluters were doing little to help in mitigation efforts.