African heads of state meet in the Kenyan capital for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, to deliberate how the continent can take climate action.

The summit, among other things, aim to produce a common plan for tackling climate change and propose a new international financing framework, which officials hope will allow nations to unlock new funds that also give them space to take climate action. It will run alongside the Africa climate week and takes place ahead of COP28 later this year.

Africa’s environmental problems are well charted: water scarcity, biodiversity loss, drought etc. Along with much of the global south, it’s seeking money from the West to help mitigate the impact of climate change.

Agencies/Aljazeera.