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Climate change must not divert world attention from poverty

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Aisha Bulyar spends a whole day searching for water in Korr, Marsabit as the ravages of climate change in northern Kenya escalate. [Peter Muiruri, Standard]

The world's development institutions are increasingly turning away from poverty-related ills like hunger, infectious disease and illiteracy-the challenges still facing most people across the planet.

An unholy alliance of green activists and climate-anxious politicians has pushed them to divert ever more resources to climate policies, which typically deliver much fewer benefits. Sadly, even the African Development Bank, meeting in Nairobi this week (May 27-31) is putting climate policy ahead of core development issues.

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