Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Dr. Deborah Mlongo Barasa, articulated Africa’s unified climate stance at the COP30 conference, emphasizing the continent's readiness for leadership contingent on significant financial and technological support from developed nations.

• Africa's climate pledges (NDCs) are largely conditional on adequate support.
• Dr. Barasa called for developed countries to "mobilise, provide and make accessible all necessary means" for implementing African commitments.
• The Cabinet Secretary stressed that COP30 must address “mitigation, adaptation, finance, and the means of implementation gap.”