- The writer is the outgoing Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg and is the incoming United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General and a Rector of the UN University.
seventh session of the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) unfolded in Egypt in November 2022, it became a signifier of Africa taking climate change into its own hands. The continent has often been placed on the back burner of other