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Kenya’s Ruto says western leaders have broken ‘climate blood pact’.

Africa Climate Summit told that developed countries are failing poorer
nations enduring worst effects of global warming.

Ruto told a gathering of fellow leaders at the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa on Monday he was
“extremely concerned” developed countries were not following through on
their commitments. Overseas assistance budgets have been slashed by the UK,
France, Netherlands as defence spending stretches weak economies,
exacerbated by swingeing cutbacks by the US under President Donald Trump.

“Climate inaction” was costing tens of thousands of lives, Ruto said.
“Lives lost to a crisis Africa did not cause, as the least polluting
continent in the world.” Senegal’s former president Macky Sall also
told the summit that the continent and the rest of the world should prepare
for more shocks, following the “dangerous retreat” of the west from
climate action. “Africa’s crisis is not Africa’s alone,” he said.
“It fuels migration, pandemics, food insecurity, economic shocks,
extremism, and instability.”

 FT 8th Sept 2025,
https://www.ft.com/content/c59f1907-4b2c-4f36-886a-60dabbdd29cc

September 11, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change