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A research has shown that the flow of climate adaptation finance to Africa must increase up to tenfold by 2035 in order to meet the deepening and devastating effects of the climate crisis.

At the on-going Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, campaigners lamented the desperate need to get funding to people who are already being affected by climate change. Africa, the region most impacted by the climate emergency, receives only 3% of global climate finance.

According to Phoebe Mwangangi, a Kenyan farmer, changes in rainfall patterns in her south-eastern Makueni home town nearly 10 years ago meant that back then she had to walk for hours every day to find water for her livestock, disrupting her and her children’s lives and despite the efforts, yields were low and her cattle had grown weak, leaving her struggling to make ends meet.

“Farming and livestock is our livelihood, so we cannot do without it,” said Mwangangi.

“For communities who are suffering from the worst impacts of climate change, it goes beyond the droughts or the floods they experience,” said Nakate. “Failed harvests could mean increases in child marriages, children dropping out of school, it could exacerbate poverty – it creates more problems that are passed on from generation to generation.”

To mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce poverty, Agricultural organisations have been searching for alternative methods. Aiccra and the International Livestock Research Institute, which promote techniques such as the use of drought-tolerant crop varieties and water harvesting, have been training Mwangangi and a group of two dozen other female farmers in the practices, which she says have boosted their agricultural productivity and helped them navigate harsh weather impacts.

“This kind of information can change the lives of farmers,” Mwangangi said.

Without investment of roughly £80m a year until 2035, the continent could lose out on as much as £4.8tn of economic benefits within the next decade, according to research by the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA).

“No country should be forced to choose between eradicating poverty, building climate resilience and honouring its debts, but right now that is what is happening,” said the former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, now chair of the GCA.

The organisation’s findings suggest that earlier estimates of Africa’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs) towards climate resilience, which placed the required funding at half that, were a “vast underestimate … prepared at a time when climate impacts were not projected to occur as quickly or as strongly as they are”.

Africa is witnessing climate extremes. In recent years, southern African countries such as Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe have been hit by the effects of climate change. Devastating floods leading to collosal loss of lives and properties have been recorded in western African nations such as Nigeria while other parts of Africa experienced  prolonged drought leading to food insecurity and poverty.

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The Kenyan president, William Ruto, has been seeking to move on from discussions of historical responsibility for carbon emissions, which, he said, “have become toxic” and led to a deadlock between developed and developing countries. With pledged climate funding from western countries, including the 2009 commitment to direct $100bn (£80bn) in annual climate finance, not forthcoming, he said African countries needed to explore other avenues.

“Let me be clear. These conversations are necessary,” Ruto said earlier this week. “Africa’s carbon footprint remains small … and a complex interplay of needs and responsibilities is a daily challenge but it should not lead to a deadlock. We must be alert to the fact that they can sometimes blind us to the bigger picture.”

Activists say sidestepping discussions on western accountability for the climate crisis can be harmful. “It erases the experiences of those who are suffering right now … and allows business to continue as usual,” said Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate campaigner.

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Ruto and other African leaders are looking to “business” solutions to the climate crisis, calling for global carbon taxes and financial reform to free up additional climate funding, and pushing for debt relief for African countries, a number of which are struggling to balance development needs such as education and health against climate action.

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