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Africa Climate Justice Group Hosts First Ever African People’s Counter COP 2021 Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow
The main part of the Counter COP will take place online through self-organised sessions on topics related to the climate and ecological crisis with a focus on Africa
By Jeorge Wilson Kingson On Oct 21, 2021
Africa climate group hosts first ever African people’s counter -COP 2021 ahead of COP26 in Glasgow
October 21, 2021
The Africa Climate Justice Group (ACJG) – which is made up of 17 movements based and allied organisations – and partners will host the first ever African People’s Counter COP from 25-27 October 2021. The event will take place just days ahead of the official Conference of Parties (COP)26 in Glasgow and the outcomes will be targeted to the African Group of Negotiators and our African governments representing us at the climate negotiations.
The group in a statement made available to The New Diplomat said the counter COP was necessitated by the failure of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over the years to address the climate crises ravaging the African continent.
You are Insensitive to the Plight of Niger Delta – CODAF tells FG, Oil Majors
22 October,2022
FG, Oil Majors Insensitive To Niger Deltans Plights – NGO
21 October,2022
The Community Development Advocacy Foundation, CODAF, also known as the Rural Community Empowerment Initiative, has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria and the oil majors operating in the Niger Delta of insensitivity for allowing the region to continue to experience environmental degradation and climate inaction.
By Editor
Africa Climate Justice counters COP26 with counter-COP
The Africa Climate Justice Group (ACJG) – which is made up of 17 movements based and allied organisations – and partners will host the first ever African People’s Counter COP from 25-27 October 2021. The event will take place just days ahead of the official Conference of Parties (COP)26 in Glasgow and the outcomes will be targeted to the African Group of Negotiators and our African governments representing us at the climate negotiations.
Climate Justice Activists Organise Counter COP In Response to COP26
The ACJG coordinator said that: “For 26 years, the voices of communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis in Africa have been shut out and blocked at every turn of the climate negotiations by corporations and rich governments. These vested interests have undermined real solutions ...
https://tribuneonlineng.com/climate-justice-activists-organise-counter-cop-in-response-to-cop26/
“Open Sessions are Online and Closed Sessions for Francophone Groups are in Senegal”.
The Counter COP is being held in response to the failure of the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and within it the COPs – to progress towards real solutions to the climate crisis because its agenda and actions have been skewed to preserve the profit-driven vested interests of powerful corporations, governments of the Global North and other elites in the Global South.
By Tobias Lengnan Dapam On Oct 22, 2021
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Climate justice activists to host 1st African’s counter COP 2021 Monday
The Community Development Advocacy Foundation (CODAF), also known as the Rural Community Empowerment Initiative, has accused the federal government of Nigeria and the oil majors operating in the Niger Delta of insensitivity to the perennial environmental degradation and climate inaction.
FG, oil majors operating in Niger Delta are insensitive – CODAF
22 October,2022
A group, the Community Development Advocacy Foundation (CODAF), also known as the Rural Community Empowerment Initiative, has accused the federal government of Nigeria and the oil majors operating in the Niger Delta of insensitivity for allowing the region to continue to experience environmental degradation and climate inaction.
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Abuja