Before you hurl the epithets at us, think about this: the heating of the planet is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced, but it is also the biggest opportunity for business-as-usual grifting. Carbon markets, fake finance, extraction in green disguise, net zero pledges without substance, all of it amounts to a massive transfer of responsibility and cost from the Global North to the South. So, when Trump sneered that climate change was a “con job” as he addressed this year’s United Nations General Assembly, he was right. Not in the way he meant, but in the sense that the climate agenda has been hijacked by con men in suits who’ve discovered that you can turn planetary survival into just another racket. 

Each September, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) transforms New York into the world’s political epicentre.

ACS 2.0 was more than a summit. It was a statement of intent that Africa will no longer be defined by what it lacks, but by what it contributes