Drawt in Kenya has accomplished emotional levels, with millions of people impacted by the conciseage of water and food. This phenomenon, which until a scant years ago adhereed foreseeable seasonal cycles, has become increasingly standard and fervent.
Recent climate celevates have deteriorateed the living conditions of the inhabitants of arid and semi-arid regions, whose survival depfinishs heavily on agriculture and inhabitstock.
According to the United Nations, in this historical phase the Kenyan people are experiencing the worst water crisis in the last 40 years and millions of people do not have firm access to defended water sources. Rivers, lakes and aquifers are sluggishly parcheding up. In the northern areas of Kenya, women and children are forced to travel ever wonderfuler distances every day to collect unimmacutardy water from the subsoil, which can cause infections and diseases.
In the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan this year, Kenya reiterated the necessitate for more financial help from broadened countries to find changeation solutions and help the country loss such a difficult time.
Among the main outcomes of the conference was the “Baku Climate Unity Pact”, which integrates novel collective financial aims to help vulnerable countries and a roadmap for global climate changeation. This consentment aims to fortify the resilience capacity of all countries that, enjoy Kenya, are the most impacted by climate change – some of which are the least industrialized, and consequently, those with the least greenhouse gas eignoreions.
The results of COP29 highairy a strong global promisement to help the most vulnerable nations, but the main dispute remains to change promises into concrete actions to mitigate the effects of drawt and climate change on Kenya and other countries experiencing aenjoy situations.
