African Climate Summit Starts in Nairobi Amid Anger at Event’s “Western Agenda”

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The first day of the inaugural African Climate Summit in Nairobi started with long queues as thousands of journalists and tens of thousands of delegates tried to get into the Kenyatta International Convention Center.

More than twenty heads of state and key climate figures like China’s Minister of Ecology and Environment, Huang Runqiu, and John Kerry, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, are attending.

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