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Power Shift Africa

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Greenwashing blood money should have no place in African sport " @TotalEnergies ’ sponsorship of #AFCON2023 , a celebration of African unity and #resilience , was an insult to people across the continent." ~ @DeanBhebhe ✍️ @africaarguments

Greenwashing blood money should have no place in African sport | African Arguments

TotalEnergies' sponsorship of AFCON, a celebration of African unity and resilience, was an insult to people across the continent.

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Resurgence: Climate Adaptation Stories from Africa ✍️ PROTECTING LAND RIGHTS IN UGANDA’S FARMING COMMUNITY At the heart of East Africa in Uganda 🇺🇬 where generations have dwelled, communities’ lives are inseparable from the land. Check it out: 🧵👇

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Is Italy’s $6bn plan for Africa just PR-friendly #neocolonialism ? "Neocolonial plans in 2024 come dressed up in PR-proof rhetoric with descriptions like “not predatory, not paternalistic, but not charitable either”. - @FadhelKaboub 👇 @africaarguments

Is Italy's $6bn plan for Africa just PR-friendly neocolonialism? | African Arguments

The Mattei Plan was drawn up by without input from leaders in Africa and is named after the founder of the Italy state fossil fuels major.

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Africa must take charge of its #Climate , #development destiny Any plan for #Africa 's development must prioritise decolonisation and systemic change. ✍️ by Ignatius Juma 🧵1/2.....

Africa must take charge of its Climate, development destiny

Africa’s development agenda cannot be led by the needs of the West.

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Solar #GeoEngineering 🚨 Geoengineering encompasses a range of speculative technologies intended to address the effects, not the root causes, of #climatechange . #Africa must refuse to be a dumping ground for dangerous technologies.

Solar Geoengineering Is a Dangerous Distraction | by Yacob Mulugetta, Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe and...

Yacob Mulugetta, Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe and Niclas Hällström urge the international community to heed African countries’ warnings about speculative climate fixes.

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Agricultural adaptation: Solarising farms for food security For generations, the arid and wild expanse of Wajir County in Kenya has been a graze land for livestock of the local pastoral community. By solarising boreholes & irrigating farms, however, the vast wilderness is now

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Climate #Adaptation Stories from Africa ✍ Mobile #irrigation technology driving #foodsecurity and #resilience For one farming community in the foothills of Mount Elgon in Mbale, Uganda 🇺🇬, mobile irrigation unlocked food security and agribusiness. Here, fields are lush, food

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Why Africa’s #adaptation battle fell short at #COP28 "Although #COP28 established the global goal for adaptation, the overall outcome is a mixed bag that matches neither the urgency nor the gravity of adaptation for developing countries." - Amy Thorp 🧵

Why Africa’s adaptation battle fell short at COP28

The overall outcome is a mixed bag that matches neither the urgency nor the gravity of adaptation for developing countries

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Members of the audience at the screening of the @DontGasAfrica documentary at #COP28 . The documentary showcases the impact of #fossilfuel exploration and expansion projects on communities in #Africa . #EndFossilFuels Watch the full documentary 👉:

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Fadhel Kaboub, Senior Advisor, @PowerShftAfrica : " #Carbonmarket projects often amount to greenwashing fraud and do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is one of the most disturbing #climatefinance false solutions and dangerous distractions." @FadhelKaboub

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"Gender equality is essential for environmental sustainability and #climateresilience . They go hand in hand. When #women thrive, humanity and the climate thrive." ~ Ignatius Juma, Adaptation and Resilience Associate, @PowerShftAfrica

Women bear the brunt of climate crisis but offer crucial solutions

In developing countries, women are responsible for small-scale farming. Yet they have minimal land tenure rights and financial resources. This curtails their ability to adapt to changing...

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📌 #SaveTheDate ‼️📢 Power Shift Africa will host an X Spaces that will explore how "economic restrictions" by IMF and the World Bank hamper growth and consign people in poor countries to suffering. 🗓️: 30th April 2024 ⏲️: 5:30pm - 7:30pm (EAT) 🔗: 🧵..

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HOW IMF FAILS WORKERS IN KENYA 🇰🇪, #AFRICA ‼️📢: 👇 ✅ Increased cost of living ✅ Low minimum wage ✅Increased taxation ✅Withdrawal of critical government programs ✅Harsh austerity measures ✅Minimal employee benefits ✍️by @JamesKahongeh_

Austerity Measures: To resuscitate or CHOKE economies? — Power Shift Africa

BY JAMES KAHONGEH For weeks now, doctors in Kenya have been engaging in a nationwide industrial action, protesting the government’s refusal to implement a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed...

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#SaveTheDate 📌 African CSOs invite you to a webinar that will focus on #CleanCookingForAfrica . The discussions will highlight the critical need to invest in sustainable #renewableenergy based solutions that will address the #cleancooking crisis in the continent. 🗓️ 13 May 2024

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Vanessa Nakate: "The success of #COP28 will not depend on speeches on big stages, new promises on top of old, broken ones but on whether leaders have the courage to call for a just and equitable phase-out of all #fossilfuels without excuses or exceptions.” @vanessa_vash

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Standing on the precipice of a #climatecrisis , denying the need to phase out #fossilfuels at #COP28 is not just unacceptable. It is a blatant disregard for scientific consensus and the very future of our planet. Read more: ✍️ by @dpcarrington 🧵 👇

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We do not want more expansion of #fossilfuels in Africa! We do not want Africa to be Europe's gas station! #DontGasAfrica @OmarElmawi @wemanya_amos @fossiltreaty @stopEACOP @CANIntl @350Africa

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Omar Elmawi 📽️ 🚨📢 ! 👇 "We are aware of the insidious nature of #carboncredits . Such false solutions don't address the root causes of #climatechange . We, therefore, demand an immediate halt to all #fossilfuel exploration in the Global South." @OmarElmawi #COP28UAE

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Mohamed Adow, Director, @PowerShftAfrica : "COP29 which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, will focus on mobilising finance that is needed to tackle #climatechange . African leaders have 12 months to get their act together and come up with a strategy for ensuring we get the most

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As the dust settles on the #AfricaClimateSummit23 , Africans are starting to realise that they have, once again, been swindled. The summit in #Nairobi , Kenya, was a diplomatic setback, a mishit on the negotiation front and a miscarriage in terms of the outcome. 🧵1/11👇

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Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, @CANIntl : " We are staring at the end of this #COP28 without an outcome on adaptation or #adaptationfinance . This COP must deliver on Adaptation." @TasneemEssop

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THE AFRICA CARBON MARKETS INITIATIVE: A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING Read full report: #Carboncredits are, essentially, pollution permits – an imaginary commodity created to benefit the wealthy, not the climate. 🧵1/3 #AfricaClimateSummit23 #ClimateCrisis

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Our key demands 📢‼️ To initiate a meaningful dialogue ahead, during and after the summit, the following must be prioritised: 👇 ✅ The inclusion of community and CSO voices in the global #cleancooking discourse ✅ Increase financial and technological flow for clean cooking

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Carbon markets take away power from local communities They are designed to hand power to self-serving global elites who are not only responsible for triggering the #climatecatastrophe through emissions but are also out of touch with the reality of anguish by these communities.

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Why Climate Adaptation? #Adaptation solutions in #Africa , such as #agroecology for food security and multiple #indigenous knowledge systems, offer context-specific solutions based on local realities. These have historically enhanced the resilience of Africa communities.

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Janet Milongo, Senior Officer, Global Platform of Action, @CANIntl : " Dangerous distractions such as carbon capture and storage have no place in an #energy transition plan." #Carbonmarkets #carboncredits #emissions #EndFossilFuels #COP28UAE @janetmilongo

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Lorraine Chiponda to African Leaders at #COP28 📢: "Do not sign any new deals on #oilandgas . This #COP28 should emphasise the need to expand #renewableenergy access in #Africa . Do not gas Africa. Do not expand these projects on our continent." 🧵 1/2

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According to @UN_Women , #women are 14 times more likely than men to die due to #climatechange catastrophes. As we work towards a #sustainablefuture that benefits everyone we must empower women and involve them in #adaptation strategies. 🟢 #Adapt2Live

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Power Shift Africa's Weekly News Briefing ✍️ Read and Subscribe 👉: The outcomes of #COP28 continue to divide opinion globally, one week after the event ended in Dubai. This year’s COP delivered an ‘‘unprecedented’’ deal touching on #fossilfuels ,

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The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative builds in double counting of carbon. It assumes the offset market will expand over time. It also claims that it will help to “achieve #netzero emissions” for African countries. This is double counting. This built-in double counting explicitly

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"The Global South is not a treasure chest for plunder. We deserve systems that are fit-for-purpose, not extractive & exploitative." Amos Wemanya of @PowerShftAfrica talks to @DubaiEye1038FM

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"We need to settle the terms of #LossAndDamage fund. It is painful to see the Global North asking us to increase borrowing to build resilience infrastructure for something that we didn't course. This is unacceptable and a crime against humanity. ~ @miaamormottley #UNGA78

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Carbon markets promote greenwashing and climate lies. Voluntary #carbonmarkets are the centerpiece of a massive effort by polluting corporations to greenwash their activities, to falsely claim their activities are consistent with a “ #netzero ” future, while continuing or

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#Carbonmarkets risk undermining #landrights , farming, #foodsecurity and has multiple undesirable consequences for local communities. Planting new forests for #carboncredits requires land, as does flooding valleys for new hydro-power projects. 🧵1/3👇

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PRESSER BY THE AFRICAN MINISTERS ON THE STATUS OF NEGOTIATIONS AT #COP28 "WE ARE DISAPPOINTED! " " We are concerned about the lack of progress on various issues of importance to our group, particularly on #finance and #adaptation ." ~ @CollinsNzovu @AGNChairUNFCCC Watch 👇

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WHY THE AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT WAS A MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR AFRICA We had hoped the inaugural Africa Climate Summit would front and rally behind a radical development and #climateaction vision for #Africa . #NairobiDeclaration . #AfricaClimateSummit23 #climatechange 🧵1/9 👇

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. @mohadow : "The decarbonisation of the global economy is one of the most impressive and challenging things we humans have ever undertaken. Some leaders seem to think it can be done by just changing the lightbulbs, but it can't. If it was that easy we would have done it already."

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Investing in carbon markets is to shift the goal post of emissions reduction To assume that #carbonmarkets will exist in the 2050s is to surrender to and accept #climatebreakdown . It is to resign to the fate of failure by carbon markets to achieve the desired #climatetargets .

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The Africa Carbon Markets Initiative did not originate from Africa. Rather, it was sponsored by the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), Sustainable Energy for ALL (SEforALL) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). It is not a solution by

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Mohamed Adow: " It’s understandable if the #COP28 host and other #fossilfuel nations are feeling the heat on this issue. #Fossilfuels are the elephant in the room and these countries can’t go on trying to pretend they are not a problem. Read more:

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Lidy Nacpil of @AsianPeoplesMvt : "We, in the Global South, firmly emphasise that the delivery of #climatefinance is not a mere act of charity or assistance. It is a fundamental obligation owed to us. A long-overdue debt that must be settled." @lnacpil #COP28UAE

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Academics, civil society, think tanks and other institutions have faulted #carbonmarkets for their failure to address #climatechange and to promote emission reduction. #AfricaClimateSummit23 #ClimateCrisis

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Here are our demands! ‼️📢📌 African Civil Society Organizations issue joint statement on the ongoing IEA Clean Cooking in Africa Summit in Paris, France. Read the statement here: #CleanCookingForAfrica #CleanCooking #CleanCookingSummit

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The top 5 most food-secure countries in the world are in the Global North. Specifically in Europe. These nations have the best food farming technology and agricultural policies in the world......🧵1/2 #FoodSecurity #WorldFoodDay

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Should #Africa celebrate or mourn #COP28 ? Mohamed Adow of @PowerShftAfrica : "For the first time in three decades of climate negotiations the words #fossilfuels have made it into a #COP outcome. We are finally naming the elephant in the room. Read:

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The six pillars of food security 🫛🌽🫘 🟢 Availability: This relates to the supply of food through production, distribution, and exchange. 🟢 Access: This refers to the affordability of food, as well as the preferences of individuals and households.......🧵 #WorldFoodDay2023

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African countries need to speak with one voice and make collective demands at #COP27 . Here's an outline of Africa's priorities at Sharm El-Sheikh:

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AFRICA CLIMATE VOICES. 🎙 On this episode, Harjeet Singh ( @harjeet11 ) of @CANintl , discusses Africa's priority for #LossandDamage at #COP28 and what will constitute a good outcome for the continent. Listen 🎧 & Subscribe 👉:

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SAVE THE DATE! We're excited to be hosting yet another powerful meeting of minds. Are you ready? Power Shift Africa will host a #TwitterSpaces on Financing Africa's #ClimateAdaptation on 3rd September 2024 at 5:30PM EAT and we hope to see you there. Link:

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. @vanessa_vash : "When African people get to choose, we choose #renewables . But will rich countries finally allow us to determine our own future? They need to meet us halfway instead of tying our hands behind our back with gas pipelines." ..🧵 #EndFossilFuels #CleanEnergy #COP28

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. @FadhelKaboub : The #Africaclimatesummit2023 was a missed opportunity. We expected African leaders to deliver a bold and transformative vision on #climate and #development . What we ended up with were vague declarations that didn't meet the expectations of the African people. 🧵👇

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Carbon markets are a false and complex solution. They require complex technologies, including computing, data management, global positioning and accounting mechanisms to operate. Read the full report: #AfricaClimateSummit23 #ClimateCrisis

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Carbon credits are pollution permits There are an imaginary commodity created to benefit the wealthy, not Africa, Africans or the climate. Read the full report: #AfricaClimateSummit23 #ClimateCrisis

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AFRICA'S AGENDA AT #COP28 As the world heads to #COP28UAE Africa has outlined the following priority areas: This COP MUST: ✅Address Climate-Induced #LossandDamage ✅Support Africa's #JustTransitions and Sustainable Development ✅Strengthen #Adaptation Action and Support

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Loss and Damage: East Africa's Flood Crisis Here is what has been lost during the #KenyaFloods so far: ✅Loss of lives ✅Infrastructure damage ✅Destroyed homes ✅Destruction of farmlands ✅Trade/business disruption It is time to prioritize early-warning systems #KenyaNews

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Nairobi declaration: A missed opportunity to raise ambition for climate adaptation in Africa The #NairobiDeclaration after #AfricaClimateSummit23 satisfies some of the expected outcomes but also contains notable gaps and failures. 🧵1/8👇

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Strengthening Africa's Climate Adaptation. The event hosted by @PowerShftAfrica on the 4th of September 2023 will bring together African leaders, policy makers and community representatives to discuss #climateimpacts and the #adaptation gap in #Africa . #AfricaClimateSummit

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. @GavinNewsom : "This #climatecrisis is a #fossilfuel crisis. It is not complicated. it's the burning of oil, gas and coal. And we need to call that out. 🧵1/3👇 #ClimateAmbitionSummit #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever #UNGA78

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The energy crisis globally is also damaging communities across Africa which already experience high levels of energy poverty. The continent needs to urgently shift to #RenewableEnergy @vanessa_vash @TheEconomist

Vanessa Nakate says fighting climate change can cut poverty in Africa

The continent needs more renewable energy

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Big oil and gas firms have been promising to lift people out of energy poverty for decades. It's a lie. The pipelines and power lines from coal and oil and gas plants will never reach those who live at the last mile and these firms know it. @vanessa_vash

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate urges Africa to ditch fossil fuels | Context

Climate change campaigner urges richer nations to pay for loss and damage facing vulnerable communities in Africa

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For #COP27 to be successful, it should: 💰Deliver climate finance 💪Strengthen adaptation support 🌧️Address loss and damage ☀️Enhance ambition on mitigation 🤝🏽Support African just transition ⚖️Put fairness at the heart of the climate negotiations

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Fadhel Kaboub, Senior Advisor, @PowerShftAfrica : "For the Global South, 2024 needs to be the year of rejecting policies of economic entrapment. We must present a united front with a coherent and transformative vision for sustainable prosperity." @FadhelKaboub

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Access to renewable energy is important for enabling Africa's development, especially in light of the current #EnergyCrisis . Join us for this exciting Twitter space tomorrow at 7pm EAT as we discuss the gas debate with experts. Set a reminder👇

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Climate Adaptation Stories from Africa ✍ Restoring #mangroves to promote #biodiversity Saloum Delta, a network of 200 islands in Senegal 🇸🇳, tells a story of climate #resilience , #adaptation , and environmental guardianship. 🧵👇 Check it out:

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Across the globe, we are coming together to fight back against the fossil fuel industry and its enablers. #EndFossilFuel #EndFossilFuelFinance #FastFairForever #GlobalClimateStrike

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#EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever Yaounde, Cameroon Via @Greenpeaceafric

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Kenya's @lizwathuti speaking at the once-a-decade meeting of the Anglican Communion at @lambethpalace , London. She told the 650 bishops: "We must break our deadly reliance on fossil fuels and invest in clean energy access"

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"There cannot be #ClimateJustice without gender justice. #ClimateChange action must address gender inequality."

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Great press conference by @Fridays4future on the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis in Africa Featuring @vanessa_vash , Ayakha Melithafa of #FridaysforFuture South Africa, Makenna Muigai of @FridaysForKe , Ndoni Mcunu of @BWIS_SA & @GretaThunberg Watch here:

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. @WilliamsRuto : "Africa nor the developing world stands in need of handouts or charity from the rich nations. What Africa needs is a fair #financialsystem , fair market access for green assets and fair national & regional trade mechanisms. #UNGA78 #ClimateAmbitionSummit #Ruto

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Climate #Adaptation Stories from Africa ✍ How Kenyan 🇰🇪 slum weather project is saving lives In Nairobi’s largest slum Kibra, heavy rains always mean flash-floods, destruction and death. For residents, life in this slum is a matter of chance. Read how Weather Mtaani is saving

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'Africa contains 40% of the world's renewable energy potential. There's no reason we can't see our entire continent become pioneers for forward thinking energy policy that embraces the benefits of clean power while leaving #fossilfuels in the ground.' @mohadow @NationAfrica

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Africa's biggest wind farm as been built near Lake Turkana It will: - boost Kenya's electricity supply by 13% - help Kenya go 100% renewable electricity by next year - be part of Africa becoming a clean energy superpower #ActOnClimate

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Join us on 4th August 7pm EAT as we discuss the problem of energy access in Africa, the gas debate and the role of #COP27 in achieving a just transition. @wemanya_amos @princepapa1 @IMariashikongo @OkandaJoab Set a reminder!

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. @mohadow , director, @PowerShftAfrica : I must say, for decades, those of us who live on the frontlines of #climatechange have been demanding, particularly the historic polluters, to tackle climate change. 🧵1/3 👇 #UNGA78 #ClimateAmbitionSummit #ClimateActionNow

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Power Shift Africa will host a #TwitterSpaces on #ClimateAdaptation and #Resilience in #Africa , on 28th September, 2023 at 7PM EAT/4PM GMT. Save the Link: 🟢 Rationale and Objectives #Climateadaptation has typically been sidelined in the multilateral

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5 months after @COP26 , what is the world doing in our 'last, best chance' to curtail catastrophic impacts of climate change? #ClimateActionNow Watch @lizwathuti 's full speech👉

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Thanks to all those in Africa and around the world striking for the climate. The time has come for politicians to wake up and #ActOnClimate #FridaysForFurture #ClimateStrike

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Africa wants renewable energy and a sustainable future. We refuse to be Europe’s gas station! #EuropeanGasConference #DontGasAfrica @DeanBhebhe @DontGasAfrica in @Reuters

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While Egypt is dealing with Coronavirus it's also facing the most extreme rainfall for decades. Known as the 'Dragon Storm', these floods have killed at least 20 people including a 6 year old.

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Great to see Senegal planting 80 million mangrove trees Mangroves: - Absorb C02 4x faster than rainforests - Protect the coast from storms - Provide home to 2K fish species - Will generate 18K tonnes more fish every year #adaptation #ActOnClimate

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It's day one of #COP28 As the climate summit begins in #Dubai , four areas need particular attention for the world to deal with the #climateemergency decisively. This #COP28 must deliver tangible progress in: ✅ #LossandDamage ✅ #Fossilfuels ✅ #Adaptation ✅ #JustTransition

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Climate leaders issued a "cease and desist notice" demanding that #fossilfuel companies immediately stop opening any new oil, gas, or coal extraction sites and stop blocking the clean energy transition we all so urgently need. @vanessa_vash @GretaThunberg

700,000 Sign 'Cease and Desist' Letter to Fossil Fuel CEOs at Davos | Common Dreams

A group of climate leaders from across the globe issued a "cease and desist notice" on Monday directed at fossil fuel CEOs attending this week's World Economic Forum, which environmentalists warn...

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BREAKING: US refuses climate reparations for developing nations. During a congressional hearing, US climate envoy @JohnKerry stated that the United States will not pay reparations to developing countries affected by #climatechange -induced disasters.

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5 years

Carbon emissions per person, by country. The African nations (brown) are hard to spot because most of them have such small emissions. #ClimateJustice

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"I have seen how the changing weather patterns have destroyed homes, destroyed farms, destroyed businesses & left people with nothing" @vanessa_vash sends a message to @JoeBiden : “We are going to hold him accountable if he doesn’t fulfil his promises”

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'Climate injustice is happening in Africa everyday, yet adaptation & #LossAndDamage have been sidelined again. The developed world at #COP27 harassed the poor communities on loss and damage. We want to remind them that days of colonialism are over.' @mohadow at @CANIntl briefing

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4 years

“For Africa, climate change is not something that is coming in the future. It is already here and affecting people’s lives." Great interview with @vanessa_vash in @The_EastAfrican . #ClimateJustice #ClimateEmergency Story by @musibamu1

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Our natural ecosystems have been pushed beyond breaking point and wealthy countries with the greatest historical emissions are not acting fast enough to help frontline communities cope with the devastation they are facing. #COP27 @lizwathuti @IrishTimes

Consequences of climate disasters must top Cop27 agenda - Kenyan activist

Oireachtas Committee hears calls for Ireland to back transparent ‘loss and damage’ system, backed by finance for vulnerable countries

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1 year

The loss of culture and heritage has so far been neglected in the #LossAndDamage discussion yet it is fundamental to all central chapters of the @IPCC_CH report such as terrestrial ecosystems; oceans ecosystems; water; food, & settlements.

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After many years of the #climate conversation, the time has come for Africa to claim its stake in the discourse. Power Shift Africa is inviting you to a monthly Twitter Spaces, starting this Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 4PM EAT. These Spaces will reflect on some of the key

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The #fossilfuels (coal, oil and gas) energy regime in #Africa has failed to deliver on the promise of jobs, increased #energyaccess and development. Millions of Africans are still without access to reliable, affordable and modern energy. 🧵1/4

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🚨 ADAPT2LIVE CAMPAIGN 🚨 Link to the Adaptation Campaign site 👇 🟢The #Adapt2Live campaign seeks to highlight adaptation as a matter of urgency for #Africa while pushing for its elevation in the political agenda of the #climate discourse.🧵1/3

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3 years

Millions are facing starvation across parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, livestock and wildlife are dying of thirst and hunger; and at the heart of it is the ever-worsening #ClimateCrisis

The climate crisis and devastating drought in eastern Africa

As countries in eastern Africa suffer its third poor rainy season, millions are facing starvation and both livestock and wildlife are dying in large numbers. So what’s causing the droughts, and what...

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4 years

Coronavirus has reached Africa. For some, they are already dealing with this, the #LocustInvasion , driven by climate change, which is destroying their crops. It's vital in this time of crisis we don't forget about the world's most vulnerable.

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Rwanda First African Country To Set New Climate Plan Under Paris Agreement @mohadow : "Fellow Commonwealth leaders such as Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau & Scott Morrison should take heed & ensure their own new climate plans are equally radical.”

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1 year

According to @UN_Women , women are 14 times more likely than men to die due to #climatechange catastrophes. As we work towards a #sustainablefuture that benefits everyone we must empower women and involve them in #adaptation strategies. #climatecrisis

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📢 We can't drink oil. Don't burn our planet! #PeoplesACS2023 #FreeOurFoodSystems #RebewablesNow #FastFairForever #ClimateActionNow #StopEacop #EndFossilFuels

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Vanessa Nakate: " It was important to finally deliver the #LossandDamage Fund and to put money into the facility. But it is even more important to put more money into #adaptation . This is #Africa 's priority and the priority of poor countries on the frontline of the

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Today is the 3rd and final day of the Just Transition for Climate Adaptation & Resilience Workshop. #AdaptorDie

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The destruction and suffering witnessed in southern Malawi is the human face of the global climate crisis, The people who have lost their homes and loved ones have done nothing to cause this #climatecrisis . -Rebecca Adda-Dontoh #CycloneFreddy

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