A 25-year-old’s crusade to make rich nations pay

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Editor's note: Sitting in one of the common workspaces right in the middle of the busy-as-a-beehive 26th edition of the Conference of Parties, or COP 26 as it is commonly referred to, 25-year-old Ineza Umuhoza Grace from Kigali, Rwanda, is going through the final texts that have emerged after days (and nights) of long negotiations with a fine-tooth comb. Playing with the colourful braids in her hair with one hand, she circles passages in the printouts in front of her with the other and excitedly asks her colleagues about revisions in the document and bracketed texts that have not yet been agreed upon by all parties.  COP 26, comprising signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is ongoing at Glasgow, UK, at the time of writing this story. It kicked off on 31 October and the last two weeks have been a culmination of two years of negotiations between various countries and blocs of countries who are essentially trying to see if global warming can somehow be halted while their national aspirations and ambitions are left as …