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World not listening to us, laments Kenyan climate scientist at COP29

Kenyan climate scientist Joyce Kimutai during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku on November 15, 2024.[AFP]

Being an expert on global warming from an African nation prone to disaster can depress Joyce Kimutai during the creaking COP climate summits, where politics often drowns out science.

"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.

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