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Uganda's environment minister, Beatrice Anywar, says that the UN environment summit COP27 - hosted this year by Egypt and aimed at limiting global emissions and warming - is an "African COP" and so it should listen better to African delegates.

In 2009, industrialised nations promised to provide $100 billion each year from 2020 to help poorer nations. Activists and leaders of developing nations are lobbying hard at the conference to make this a reality - despite tough global economic conditions.

But Beatrice Anywar says that developed nations shouldn't see this as "charity" but as a fair payment for the "natural solutions" forests and other carbon sinks can play when reducing global warming. She says it's time to put a monetary value on natural resources the world over.

(Photo: Beatrice Anywar. Credit: Benedict Ntanzi)