Vanessa Nakate Climate Striker & Activist
By Alfred Robert Hogan At the opening session of the UN 2021 Youth4Climate meeting in Milan, Italy, climate activist and co-keynoter Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke quite frankly to the 400 young delegates, gathered there from 180 countries. She reminded them that even the limited pledges of 100 billion Euros (US $117 billion) in climate crisis aid from the wealthy nations had yet to be delivered to the poorer ones. “In fact, funds were promised by 2020, and we are still waiting,” she said. “No m