If You Want Our Countries to Address Climate Change, First Pause Our Debts
“Countries in the West often plead with us to invest in the kind of ambitious resilience projects we need to survive in a warming world. But in Africa, we can’t fix the climate issue unless we fix the debt issue,” write President of Kenya William Ruto, African Union Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat, African Development Bank President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, and Global Center on Adaptation CEO Prof. Dr. Patrick Verkooijen.