(8 Sep 2025)
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 8 September 2025
1. Various of African presidents entering the plenary hall at the Africa Climate Summit 2 (ACS2)
2. President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh (red tie) walking into the plenary hall
3. Wide of Ethiopian national anthem playing
4. Various of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on stage to address delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia:
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"We ask our global partners not to fund us because we are impacted, but to invest with us because we are visionary. It is time to replace climate aid with climate investment."
6. Wide of Abiy walking off stage
7. Various of delegates
8. Wide pan of performers on stage
9. Mid of an illuminated map of Africa
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission Chairperson:
"The vulnerability of our member countries caused by climate change, debt burden and the structural inequalities of the international financial architecture must be redressed through climate justice. We need a genuine cooperation for the implementation of our continent’s adaptation plan by providing financial resources, technology and expertise."
11. Wide of Kenyan President William Ruto addressing delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) William Ruto, President of Kenya:
"The truth is undeniable. No nation can solve this crisis alone. Only through bold, united and sustained collaboration can we avert climate catastrophe. Isolation is not a winning strategy, it is courting failure."
13. Wide of delegates outside plenary hall
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, environmental activist:
"We are the solutions. We have the indigenous people’s knowledge, we know how to plant the trees. We know how to grow the food, we know where to find water when it is drought. We know where to hide when it floods. So, this knowledge are better than technology because they are ancient knowledge of thousands of years. So, we need to value them, we need to recognize them. So then the Global North needs to pay for that, not as charity. It is our compensation."
15. Ethiopian traditional performers singing
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Amos Wemanya, climate justice activist, Greenpeace Africa:
"This Addis 2nd Climate Summit must be able to find mechanisms for funding Africa’s climate action and development. We need to make the polluters who have caused us this climate catastrophe to pay for it. We need to tax the polluters. We need to tax the super rich to be able to generate the resources and make them pay for the climate plunder that they are causing the continent."
17. Various of traditional performers
STORYLINE:
African leaders have proposed a shift in climate adaptation funding, urging investors not to view it as charity but as a strategic investment in the future.
Dozens of heads of state and government representatives met on Monday for the Africa Climate Summit in Ethiopia, where they called for the continent not to be treated as a victim but as an investment opportunity.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said it was “time to replace climate aid with climate investment.”
African countries, with a population of more than one billion, have borne the brunt of climate catastrophes, including droughts and floods, that have left millions of people vulnerable.
African countries made ambitious plans to increase renewable energy during the last climate summit in 2023, but funding constraints have slowed down implementation.
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