Despite being largely responsible for the worsening climate crisis in East Africa, rich nations paidEthiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan just $2.4 billion in climate-related developmentfinance in 2021, in stark contrast to the $53.3 billion East Africa says it needs annually to meet its 2030 climate goals. Oxfam’s “Unfair Share” Report published today, shows that the biggest polluting nations have fallen shortof meeting both the climate and the humanitarian funds East African countries need to recover fromtheir climate-fuelled hunger crisis. It highlights the impact of climate change on the future of the region. Oxfam in Africa Director, Fati N’Zi-Hassane said: “Even by their own generous accounts, pollutingnations have delivered only pittance to help East Africa scale up their mitigation and adaptation efforts.Nearly half the funds (45%) they did give were loans, plunging the region further into more debt.” A prolonged drought and erratic rainfalls have killed nearly 13 million animals, and decimated hundreds ofthousands of hectares of crops, leaving millions of people without income or food. These four East African countries have incurred up to an estimated $30 billion of losses from 2021 to the end of 2023. Oxfamcalculates that these countries also lost approximately $7.4 billion worth of livestock. As a result, over 31 million people across the four countries are suffering severe hunger because ofa two-year drought and years of flooding, compounded by displacement and conflict. Despite the soaring humanitarian need, rich nations have only met about one third…