African climate summit seeks to shift focus to finance from floods, famine

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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be ...

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSNAIROBI - How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next week, while activists resist plans to expand carbon markets for funding.

"We aim to start changing the conversation from Africa the victim of hunger, famine and floods," said Kenyan Environment Minister Soipan Tuya ahead of the summit beginning on Monday in Nairobi. The summit's organisers also say they expect deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars to be concluded in Nairobi.

"These approaches will embolden wealthy nations and large corporations to continue polluting the world, much to Africa’s detriment," the groups said in the letter. One of the projects generating those credits is Kenya-based BURN Manufacturing's production of clean cooking stoves to replace heavily polluting wood and charcoal-based fires.

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