The global opportunity to accelerate Africa's sustainable future | Vanessa Nakate and Mary Robinson

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate sits down with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson for an enlightening, intergenerational conversation about the state of the climate crisis. Nakate paints a picture of life in her home country of Uganda -- which faces prolonged droughts, landslides and flooding stemming from climate change -- and clarifies the need for energy-rich, high-emitting nations to provide climate finance for Africa and accelerate the continent's sustainable future. "We cannot solve the problems that are happening right now with the very system that created them," Nakate says. "We need something new."

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.8	Today we go to Uganda, a landlocked East African country which faces prolonged droughts,
0:11.9	landslides, and flooding that stem from climate change.
0:15.9	Climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate is a voice on the global stage for the dangers
0:20.7	her country and continent face.
0:23.4	In a 2022 interview recorded for Ted Women Presents, she sits down with former Irish President
0:28.5	Mary Robinson to talk through the challenges and the potential solutions after the break.
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