Africa’s Youngest Climate Finance & Biodiversity Champion – Kenya Ellyanne Wanjiku Chlystun Githae & Sierra Leone Vice President Children’s Forum Network Foday Bangura
Children have taken pride to issue their maiden address to national leaders for the much anticipated Africa Climate summit week to be held in Nairobi. The children envisage an all inclusive approach in coming up with steps of mitigating these effects.
The outcome statement to be presented by the committee to Africa Head of states was arrived at after the Child-led climate change summit representatives held their first ever climate action meeting from the 31st of August to 2nd September on the sidelines of the inaugural ACS
In a press conference on their conclusion day, Saturday, the Global Child-led climate change summit committee and the children representative from the global south said there’s a need to have an inclusive environmental decision making in Africa as there are the future custodians.
The child-led climate change summit also want to see steps towards achieving financial accountability and equity, green energy advocacy and investment in rural Africa, and environmental education and digital empowerment on educational reforms to foster green initiatives in schools by all African head of states.
The children summit, being cognizant of the underlying issues in global financing implored global leaders to amplify the voice of young climate action campaigners by highlighting climate-induced child rights violations and share their solutions.
The statement read, ”We implore global stakeholders to boost support for community empowerment, addressing climate change’s impact on children’s health and ensuring African girls’ education and protection from forced marriages. Insist on robust climate finance by amplify climate finance globally, ensuring that contributions do not support fossil fuel expansion. Our lives and our nations’ futures depend on this commitment.”
On behalf of the children representatives, the outcome statement read by Africa’s youngest climate finance & biodiversity champion – Kenya Ellyanne Wanjiku Chlystun Githaewho rallied for an intergenerational pact for a regenerative future where there’s a just transition to a regenerative future for all.
On his part, Sierra Leone Vice President Children’s Forum Network Foday Bangura, said the future leaders are advocating for an intergenerational commission to redefine their social contract and birth a new economy prioritizing our planet.
With issues of carbon trade and biodiverse investments on the table in the ACS, the children say transparency and empowerment to African communities will to safeguard Africa’s vulnerable society from unequitable distribution.
It is their hope that these outcomes will be addressed during the Africa Climate Summit week which begins on the 4th to the 6th of September and attracts over 30,000 delates from across Africa with key note speakers from the Africa Union and the continent’s head of states.