🌍 Africa Demands Science-Led Climate Action & Fair Finance

Africa is rewriting the climate playbook 🌱 – and the world better listen. At a major conference in Addis Ababa this week, African leaders declared #EnoughIsEnough to climate policies shaped without African science or voices.

🔥 Climate Cash ≠ Charity

AGN Chair Richard Muyungi dropped truth bombs 💣: "Climate finance isn't charity – it's reparations for ecological debt." With 110 million Africans hit by climate disasters in 2024 alone, the continent demands:

• 🔬 Homegrown climate science replacing foreign models
• 💸 $3 trillion to meet 2030 climate goals
• 🌐 Seat at the table for vulnerable communities

📉 The Funding Gap Shocker

PACJA's Mithika Mwenda revealed the brutal math: Africa gets just 3-4% of global climate funds despite facing:

• ☀️ Record-breaking Sahel floods
• 🌵 Southern Africa's worst drought in living memory
• 🔥 Farm-destroying heatwaves in the north

Over 1,000 delegates at the "Empowering Africa's Climate Action" summit are now drafting a survival blueprint combining ancestral knowledge 🧭 with cutting-edge science. Will global powers finally pay their climate tab? 💳 The clock's ticking ⏰.

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Africa calls for reframing global climate action with science, finance

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