Who’ll pick up tab for climate change loss, damage to planet?

A donkey carries water containers near a dry riverbed

A donkey carries water containers near a dry riverbed. Kenya is among countries in the Global South hardest hit by extreme weather linked to a warming planet. PHOTO | JOHN WESSELS | AFP

By Louise Osborne

Eric Njuguna is angry. The 20-year-old environmental activist is witnessing the devastating changes a warming planet is bringing to Kenya. People are losing livelihoods, homes and many, even lives, to the worst drought the region has seen in the past 40 years.