Time for less talk to real action on climate change, says avid environmentalist Collins Lungongo


By Kelvin Malick 

Youth leader and environmentalist Mr. Collins Lungongo. He is requesting global leaders to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework to save the planet.

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, will play host to the 29th session of the Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held from 11th-22nd November 2024, at a time when the planet is assuaged by a myriad of challenges occasioned by climate change. 

The upcoming climate summit presents another great opportunity for leaders and policy makers to take another keen look at mechanisms of addressing this existential threat whose effects are already being felt across the world. 

Collins Lungongo, an environmentalist and youth leader, asserts that leaders have a genuine opportunity to move from talk to real action. While commenting on the UN Biodiversity Summit (COP16) held in Cali, Colombia from 21st October to 1st November, the avid environmentalist stressed the need for global leaders to swiftly implement the Global Biodiversity Framework to save the planet.

“The Cali summit was a major push to protect nature and it came at the right time,” notes Lungongo. 

“This was the biggest UN meeting on biodiversity in history, and there were plenty of lessons for world leaders to learn from. I believe the participants were presented with a platform to design an inclusive approach that is critical for the declining biodiversity. We must now embark on executing the outcomes of the meeting.”

Further, Lungongo adds that the Kenyan government under the leadership of President William Ruto ought to prudently use the Ksh 15.2 billion (Resilience and Sustainable Fund) of the Ksh  78 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding to finance environmental initiatives and cushion disaster-stricken communities in Kenya.

Lungongo stressed the need for a structured approach and sufficient accountability in climate finance spending by the government in order to ease vulnerable communities off the burden of climate change impacts.


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