Resilient 40 – A Youth Voice for a Climate Resilient Africa

WE FACE OVERLAPPING AND INTERSECTING CRISES, INCLUDING ECOLOGICAL AND CLIMATE BREAKDOWN.

In pursuing climate action, policymakers cannot forget young people and they cannot forget the gap this creates come to implementation of the said policies we are never part of at creation. We are empowering youth around Africa and diaspora to mobilize for climate action and hold our leaders to account on both the climate and ecological crises.

RESILIENT40 ADVISORY OPINION ON CLIMATE CHANGE STATEMENT

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Climate Justice Activists file an application with the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, for an Advisory Opinion on...

Water and Climate Change

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Climate change is primarily a water crisis. We feel its impacts through worsening floods, rising sea levels, shrinking ice fields,...

The Road Towards Belém: Laying the groundwork for COP30

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The continuous need to empower youth to accelerate and inspire the needed change in their communities stands at the centre...

Gender equality and equity for climate action

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More emphasis is needed on gender equality and equity and women’s empowerment for climate action. Diversity, equity, inclusion and justice...

As an African Youth – What you should know – support for adaptation in times of shifting politics and tight budgets

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Africa faces a critical climate adaptation finance crisis, with funding needs outpacing current levels and trust in international commitments eroding....

2025 Is the Year to Care About Finance for Climate and Nature

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It’s climate finance - and this year is a bellwether of the world’s ability to provide it at scale. At...

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RESILIENT 40 ADVISORY OPINION ON CLIMATE CHANGE STATEMENT

We as the African Climate Platform, Resilient40, Natural Justice and Environmental Lawyers Collective for African supported by the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) have officially submitted an application requesting this esteemed Court to issue

Africa’s Climate Crisis, Energy Transformation and Environmental Justice

The Global North holds disproportionate responsibility for the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, and disproportionate resources and capacity to respond. These should be moments to respond with urgency and to propose long-term solutions to our current systems’ dysfunctions.

Road to COP30

For the first time, COP30 will take place in the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world and home to thousands of Indigenous and traditional peoples. It will be a key moment of reckoning. Failure to adopt urgent climate action contravenes not only the Paris Agreement target to keep global heating below 1.5°C, but also human rights obligations.

Rethinking the Financial and the economic system for climate justice

In contemplating the intersection of finance, economics, and climate justice, it becomes evident that our current international financial architecture significantly contributes to exacerbating climate change and widening environmental disparities.

As we bid farewell to 2024, a year that unfolded with its unique set of challenges and triumphs, we take a moment to reflect on our work with and for youth in all their diversity – a testament to intergenerational intercultural solidarity and our shared accomplishments, and welcome the promise of a new year, we express our sincere gratitude to each member of The Resilient40 for an incredible year of collaboration, passion and growth.