- According to Ruto, it is high time everyone channelled their efforts towards finding a common solution for the African continent.
- The President spoke during the opening of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi.
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President William Ruto has urged participants in the Africa Climate Summit to put their joint efforts on climate towards African priorities.
According to Ruto, it is high time everyone channelled their efforts towards finding a common solution for the African continent.
He asked the leaders present at the summit that is ongoing at the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) to put in resources towards a safer world.
Ruto added that among the steps to be taken, should be the formation of a financial structure that can be dedicated towards delivering on African climate action goals.
"My call to everyone present in this historic summit is for us to work together and converge our efforts on African priorities. I urge everyone to make a contribution to our generation's unprecedented and highly consequential endeavour to catalyse climate action in a spirit of candour, collaboration and courage," Ruto said.
"Let us imagine a pathway for different financial structures that can deliver on Africa's goals. Let us commit to investing in viable solutions presented by renewable energy, green industrialization, climate-smart agriculture and nature conservation. The future is not just something to hope for nor is it something to merely wish or wait for. The future is for us to conceptualize and actualise now."
The President spoke during the opening of the African Climate Summit in Nairobi.
The summit begins on Monday and will end on Friday, September 8.
Speaking at the same event, Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya called on the African Climate Summit participants to come up with ways to reduce the carbon footprint in the continent.
Tuya said the delegates should work towards exploiting Africa's abandoned resources, to achieve this.
She insisted that the climate summit provides an opportunity to foster a renewed approach towards climate change.
"Use the next three days to explore options of how we optimise Africa's abandoned human resources to leapfrog towards a low carbon economy while opening new opportunities for climate finance, trade, investments, innovation resilience and green jobs," she said.