Join the Real Africa People’s Climate Summit March for a Renewed African Vision!

The upcoming peaceful march seeks to highlight the pressing matter of ambitious renewable energy goals at the Africa Climate Summit 2023. Incorporating artivism, the march aims to Inspire and engage attendees, including summit delegates, by fusing creativity, Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA), and a clear message:

To spotlight the need for a Renewed African Vision.

The climate crisis is being turbocharged across the globe with the African people disproportionately experiencing the devastating impacts. Poverty and hunger are on the rise and millions of Africans are being forced to escape and migrate from their countries due to climate change.

Midway through the implementation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 10 years since the launch of Africa’s development blueprint - Agenda 2063, 600 million Africans without access to energy while over 900 million Africans cannot cook without harmful fumes. Public services such as education and healthcare are chronically underfunded as unsustainable debt drives austerity. Climate induced disasters are increasing both the cost of borrowing and exacerbating the risk of debt crises as most countries have no option other than borrowing to deal with the recovery and reconstruction costs whenever disasters hit. Unsustainable debt levels that many countries face today also mean less fiscal space and to invest in adaptation and mitigation as well as address losses and damages already being experienced.

The Real Africa People’s Climate Summit March will bring together diverse stakeholders from across struggles and movements from across the African continent for a renewed African vision for prosperity and well-being for all that optimises the continent’s abundant human and natural resources and puts African people in the driving seat of the climate and development action agenda. It is an opportunity to centre people’s voices, needs, wellbeing and the earth’s welfare in the climate change action and development discourse.

The march acts as one of the many actions that seeks to organize across struggles and movements and push for structural change and sustainable financing, promoting effective climate action and development pathways that enhance livelihoods, secures food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, protects African people’s dignity, natural heritage, and culture, and helps Africa to end the structural developmental traps that it has faced for centuries.

The Real Africa People’s Climate Summit also is key part for the upcoming wave of global mobilisations will include the March to #EndFossilFuels fast, fast, forever in New York City on September 17, as world leaders attend the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit.

Together we will #EndFossilFuels - fast, fair and forever!