Kenya’s leader says climate change is eating away Africa’s GDP, calls for talks on global carbon tax

Climate change is “relentlessly eating away” at Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax, Kenya’s president declared Tuesday as the first Africa Climate Summit began. “Those who produce the garbage refuse to pay their bills,” President William Ruto said. The African continent of more than 1.3 billion people is losing 5% to 15% of its GDP growth every year to the widespread impacts of climate change, according to Ruto.