The generally dry, wind-swept, dusty and water-starved Makueni County was the perfect backdrop for the 7th Devolution Conference that ended on Friday under the theme 'Multi-level Governance for Climate Action', and which devoted reflections on the climate change catastrophe under a sub-theme titled 'Sub-national Mobilization in Unlocking the Full Potential of Climate Action during and after Pandemics'.
It was also a timely convocation coming after the drawn-out global climate conference held in Glasgow last month under the Conference of Parties (COP) series, this being the 26th. The theme and timing of the Makueni conference may have been coincidental but it is a happy coincidence given the clear and present danger we all confront if global warming is not mitigated by unrelenting action and investment.
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