Africa is talking but is anyone listening? Analysing the Africa Climate Summit

The summit, the continent's largest meeting on the climate crisis, finished last week amid arguments over false solutions', unfulfilled promises and western corporate meddling

More than a dozen African leaders stood outside Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi last Wednesday to review what had been billed as the continent's largest meeting on the climate crisis.

Earlier that morning, the Nairobi Declaration had been adopted as a blueprint to guide the continent in future negotiations with the west in global forums such as the G20 meeting; the UN general assembly; the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund; and Cop28.