PACJA launches 15 Days of Action Towards Climate Justice for Africa

14 October 2021: The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance will from today, the 14 October to 28, 2021 begin mobilising its national platforms and partners around Africa towards 15 Days of Climate Action towards climate justice for Africa.

The “15 days action” seeks to inspire individuals, partners and organizations to become part of the movement towards 1.5°C target, regarded by scientists as the temperature threshold that will keep Africa and the world safe from climate catastrophe.

According to the 2019 GAP Report, the targeted emission reductions need to be three times more ambitious than all the current NDCs submitted to the Paris Agreement.

The findings of the UNEP report reinforced the conclusions reached by the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) which recommended that to stay within the 2 degrees guardrail and to have any chances of achieving the 1.5-degree target, emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030.

Each of the ten days represents 1.5°C, around which activities in respective localities and groups will mobilise action.

This will build into the momentum created by the “Road to COP” conference held in Abuja in July 2021, the nexus between climate change and Covid 19 conference, the African roundtable on Cop 25 reflections, the Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice, the ninth Climate Change and Development in Africa Conference (CCDA-IX),  the World Forum on Climate Justice,  the Global Peoples Assembly and the Mexico and Paris Forums of the Generation Equality, alongside other collaborative convenings where both the governments and non-state actors have fostered partnerships to address the diverse but relevant climate discourse processes aimed at unifying African voices for enhanced visibility at international interactions, notably UNFCCC.

As an Africa-wide initiative, the “15 Days of Action” will be conducted in selected countries, hotspot communities and capitals and aimed at mobilizing and stimulating actions and reinforcing efforts to exercise the power of collective action and community struggles ahead of COP26. It will also contribute to the “World Climate March”, an equally authentic global initiative driven by a coalition of organisations led by Oxfam to drum up support for 1.5°C target as a way of delivering climate justice to communities at the frontline of climate change impacts.  

This is part of the Road to COP activities conducted by PACJA every year that links actions from local to national and international levels, progressively increasing the number of people mobilized, expanding the numbers of countries and communities partnering, raising the scale, intensity and boldness of our actions, and enhancing our strength and power to contribute in the best way possible the prevention of planetary catastrophe.