I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable solution. The photo is among other shocking and moving photos captured from some of the hardest hit areas by drought.

It’s no doubt now that Africa is the ultimate victim of the Climate Change since its consequences are already hitting hard. For instance, a drop in rainfall has led to a historic five year drought across East Africa which aid agencies said could see more than 23 million people face hunger and destitution. Nothing seems to be working out for Africa even after great promises by countries said to be the biggest culprits in gas emissions.

A recent UN climate change negotiation in Bangkok paints even a more grimmer Africa since nothing substantive was delivered on targets for reducing green house emissions or the transfer of technology and finance from rich to poorer nations for adaptation and mitigation leading to serious questions about the political commitment of the industrialised nations.

Obama and Gordon Brown are among other leaders on record promising commitment on tackling climate change and reaching an effective agreement on how to do this when UN negotiations end in Copenhagen in December. We only hope that any commitment will be adhered to the letter.

These are some of the issues that arose from the Bangkok meeting. The G77/China group of 132 developing nations said that the EU is trying to “divide and conquer” the developing nations and detract attention from their own broken promises.

* There was virtually no progress on new targets for developed nations that are party to the Kyoto Protocol to cut their emissions, despite them being legally bound to agree new targets.

* The G77/China accuse the United States and European Union of trying to kill the Kyoto Protocol, the only legal agreement that commits any nation to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. The EU as a party to the protocol is legally bound to agree new targets for a post-2012 period.

* In the negotiations focusing on ways to tackle climate change by reducing deforestation , the European Union has removed a provision that would protect against the conversion of natural forests to plantations, threatening impact for biodiversity and forest-dependent people.

* Only Norway, by announcing that it would increase its pledge to cut emissions by 40% of their 1990 level by the year 2020. This is an increase from their earlier pledge of a 30% cut.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change binds rich countries such as the United States and European Union member states to provide funding to developing nations to adapt to and mitigate climate change.