Fairtrade is set to unveil a new climate campaign across Kenya, the UK and the US, with 1.8million farmers and workers calling on world leaders at COP26 to listen their expertise in low-income countries who grow our food, because they are living the reality of the climate crisis every day. Fairtrade’s campaign, branded ‘ Be Fair With Your Climate Promise ’, kicks off today, 18 th September 2021, just ahead of the UN’s global Youth4Climate summit and at the start of Great Big Green Week . It will peak at COP26 in November, when world leaders meet in Glasgow for critical climate negotiations. With the countdown to COP continuing, the campaign is highlighting just how much is at stake for farmers and workers who produce much of the food Brits love to consume. In Africa, temperatures are rising more rapidly than the global average, with extreme weather events and more frequent rainfall now expected across the continent, jeopardising the viability of crops. While the world’s wealthi...