Kenya rep: Global community must tackle climate change

The global community must fight climate change and cope with its consequences, Festus Ngeno, secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Kenya, said at a panel session during the UN Pre-Conference of Parties on Climate Change 2024 (Pre-COP29) in Baku, Report informs.

He said that although climate adaptation was previously considered a local problem of individual countries, now the world community has agreed that the problem has taken on a global character and requires cooperation from the global community.

"The African Union and its regional economic communities have institutional mechanisms to accelerate coordination and cooperation in overcoming climate risks," he said.