African leaders call for debt relief to help tackle climate crisis

Nairobi Declaration, issued at first African Climate Summit, also includes call for global carbon taxes

African leaders have called for debt relief across the continent to allow countries to get on with responding to the climate crisis, as they publish the Nairobi Declaration at the end of the first African climate summit.

The declaration, which had a heavy focus on climate finance, also included a call for global carbon taxes, and for increased representation of African and other countries in the governance of multilateral banks.