Climate Justice for Africa! - Resource Governance
Africa Speaks up on Climate Change
Introduction
Climate Justice for Africa
Africa speaks up on Climate Change is an appeal to political actors worldwide to care about the threat climate change poses to Africa. Its aim is to create awareness that these political actors must act immediately. Already, droughts, floods, desertification and other effects of climate change are threatening both nature and livelihoods. The appeal also addresses the African public: Only the people can apply the necessary pressure to make the necessary changes.
Africa speaks up on Climate Change describes the problems Africans are already facing, but it doesn't stop there. The signatories pose concrete demands to political leaders of industrial nations, emerging economies and also African countries themselves. They all have to put a stop to further climate change and at the same time find ways to adapt to the existing consequences.
Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel peace prize laureate Wangari Maathai is the author of the appeal Africa speaks up on Climate Change and the patron of the campaign. Her hope is that Africa no longer keeps silent but speaks up in order to challenge climate change and its effects.
The film Hotspot Africa
The scientists in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) state without a doubt that no continent will be hit harder by climate change than Africa. Their prediction: rising temperatures and a rise in extreme weather anomalies. Farmer and environmentalist Mulualem Birhane and his neighbours found out long ago what that means for the every day lives of Africans. In Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, almost all farmers rely solely on weather conditions for their harvest. „We used to have a fixed rainy season, but for some years now, it's been unreliable - sometimes, the rainy season doesn't come, sometimes the rain is too heavy or too late," says Mulualem.
Africa Speaks up on Climate Change
APPEAL
Africa Speaks up on Climate Change
INTERVIEW
Demanding Climate Justice
- Interview with Negusu Aklilu, co-ordinator of the Ethiopian Forum for Environment, editor-in-chief of 'AKIRMA: a Magazine on Environment and Development', and one of the primary signatories of the appeal Africa Speaks up on Climate Change. more»
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