February 23, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>
February 23, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>
Just Because Some Bad Wind Blows Ends UN Climate and Clean Air Conference in Nairobi<\/p><\/h2><\/div>
I was pleased on 23 February, 2024 to be the final act of the annual meeting of the United Nations\u2019s Climate and Clean Air conference that closed in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/span><\/p>\n As the meeting wrapped up the pumping bass notes of Just Because Some Bad Wind Blows filled Conference Room 1 at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/span><\/p>\n By the end of the song, which is also the title of my album produced by Bernadette La Hengst, many of the remaining delegates had started a Mexican wave-like clapping and on the final note erupted into cheers.<\/span><\/p>\n It was quite moving for me. I spent 13 years at UNEP\u2019s Kenyan headquarters leaving in December 2013 to join UN Climate Change in Bonn and I this was the first time I had returned in just over 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n I was there to make a three-part chat show about the work of the UNEP-hosted Climate and Clean Air Coalition for broadcasting on We Don\u2019t Have Time TV. <\/span><\/p>\n The coalition, which I had a hand in establishing as far back as 2010, brings governments, companies and civil society from across the globe together to phase down some of the less well-known gases that also cause climate change while having other, multiple, nasty impacts from air pollution to damaging crops and nature.<\/span><\/p>\n It had already become clear during the week\u2019s TV shoot that former colleagues would not let me leave without singing from my album.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>