{"id":214713,"date":"2025-11-24T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-environment-chief-tells-cop30-polluters-must-pay\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:56:42","slug":"sierra-leone-environment-chief-tells-cop30-polluters-must-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-environment-chief-tells-cop30-polluters-must-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Environment Chief Tells COP30 Polluters Must Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>What&#8217;s the context?<\/em> <em>Jiwoh Abdulai, Sierra Leone&#8217;s environment minister, talks to Context about what climate change means in his West African nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">BEL\u00c9M, BRAZIL &#8211; The world&#8217;s largest polluters must pay for the damage they are causing in Sierra Leone, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/climate-risks\/what-is-the-world-doing-about-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> is having a &#8220;slow-burning impact&#8221; and degrading basic standards of living, the country&#8217;s top environment official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Sierra Leone is among the 15 economies <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-country-climate-and-development-report-june-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst-affected<\/a> by climate change, according to a World Bank report&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240079.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the context? Jiwoh Abdulai, Sierra Leone&#8217;s environment minister, talks to Context about what climate change means in his West African nation. BEL\u00c9M, BRAZIL &#8211; The world&#8217;s largest polluters must pay for the damage they are causing in Sierra Leone, where climate change is having a &#8220;slow-burning impact&#8221; and degrading basic standards of living, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6510,52820,8503,6572,257,9105,44576,6571,1135,254,7036],"class_list":["post-214713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-cop30","tag-environment","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-polluters","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}