African Nations are Pushing for the World's Top Polluters to Pay Up

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Climate change doesn't care if you're a saint or a sinner. And African political and business leaders say everybody should foot the bill.

On the final day of the African Climate Summit this week in Kenya, officials from across the continent signed the Nairobi Declaration, a proposed global carbon tax that would have major polluters pay more to bankroll green energy projects and protective infrastructure in developing nations that often suffer the most damage from climate change.

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