Instead of hosting the location of Santiago Network on Loss and Damage’s headquarters in Nairobi, it looks like it will be located in the more expensive Geneva instead. UNOPS and UNDRR have recommended the headquarters be established in Nairobi, which is already home to the UN’s African headquarters and the UN Environment Programme. However the Santiago Network’s advisory board chose Geneva, a decision that African negotiators only begrudgingly accepted. For Mohamed Adow, the founder of think-tank Power Shift Africa, the decision reinforces a pattern “by the Global North to keep power away from the places where the impacts of climate change are being felt.”
