Nairobi, June 14 -- As climate change accelerates, a growing share of its impacts can no longer be avoided through mitigation or adaptation alone.

Across Africa, communities are already living with irreversible losses: livestock wiped out by prolonged droughts, homes swept away by floods, disappearing biodiversity, shrinking water sources, and the erosion of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.

These are the realities of loss and damage, the climate impacts that persist even after all reasonable efforts to adapt. It is against this backdrop that Kenya has achieved a major milestone on the global climate stage.

At the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany, Kenya became the first African country and on...