Environment and Climate Change Principal Secretary Dr. Eng. Festus Ng’eno is attending the 2024 High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) at Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.
NCQG is a new annual financial target that developed countries must meet from 2025 onward to provide climate finance to developing countries.
The PS is representing Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale at the meeting.
It replaces the previous commitment of USD 100 billion per year that developed nations had pledged in 2009 but failed to deliver.
The high-level ministerial meeting, held ahead of next month’s COP29 in the Azerbaijani capital, is aimed at consolidating the world’s position on NCQG guided by urgency to act as well as needs and priorities of developing countries.
The PS who is accompanied by the Ministry’s Director for Climate Change Dr. Pacifica Ogolla, is scheduled to deliver the Africa Group position at the meeting also addressed by COP29 President-Desigate Mukhtar Babayev, UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J Mohamed and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell.
