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🌍 Climate action doesn't wait for the next summit. It happens in communities, classrooms and conflict zones — every single quarter. Climate & Sustainable Development Network (@CSDevNet1 ) Nigeria — a UNFCCC Observer Organisation with over 300 member organisations across Nigeria — has just released its Q2 2026 Newsletter, and the numbers tell a powerful story of what locally led climate action actually looks like on the ground. In just one quarter: 📍 7 Nigerian states reached through climate resilience, environmental governance and sustainable livelihood programmes 👥 1,800+ people engaged — youth, women, farmers, journalists and policymakers 🏠 1,505 households surveyed across Adamawa, Borno and Yobe to generate evidence linking climate change, livelihood insecurity and vulnerability to extremism 🌱 800 oil palm seedlings planted and a Community Green Action Plan validated in Kogi State 🎓 50+ journalists trained on climate governance reporting ahead of COP31 🐟 10,000 catfish juveniles stocked as part of climate-smart agriculture in coal mining communities 💧 A solar-powered borehole installed to support climate-smart farming 💰 20 Village Savings and Loan Associations established — turning climate resilience into economic empowerment From flood preparedness in the Niger Delta to youth participation in Nigeria's NDC 3.0 implementation, from climate education in universities to nutrition care for sickle cell patients — CSDevNet is proving that the most durable climate solutions are built closest to the people they serve. And @PACJA is proud to be among CSDevNet's partners in this work. 🤝 📖 Read the full Q2 2026 Newsletter for the complete story behind the numbers. 🔗 csdevnet.org #CSDevNet #PACJA #ClimateJustice #Nigeria #ClimateAction #LocalLeadership #CommunityResilience #ClimateSmartAgriculture #YouthAndClimate #COP31 #Sustainability #NDC

🌍 While the world debates climate policy at global summits, #PACJA is quietly doing something equally important — building the local foundations that make those policies real. The GUARD Plus project (Galvanizing and Unifying African Voices for Resilient Development) is a pan-African initiative led by PACJA, funded by Sida, and implemented in Morocco alongside AESVT Maroc and AMCDD - Alliance Marocaine pour le Climat et le Développement Durable. Its premise is straightforward: global climate commitments mean nothing if the communities they are supposed to protect have no voice in shaping them. In Morocco, GUARD Plus has been doing exactly that — convening teachers, local governments, mining experts, health professionals, youth, women and civil society around one shared question: how do we make climate action work here, for the people who live here? From classrooms in Rabat to mining schools in the capital, from One Health workshops in Casablanca to financing dialogues on Morocco's NDC 3.0 — the project has been connecting the dots between global climate ambition and local reality. The newsletter captures it all — the events, the outcomes, the partnerships and the roadmaps being built on the ground. Read the full GUARD Plus newsletter to see what climate justice looks like when it reaches the community level. 👇 🔗 pacja.org/newsletter-pro… #GUARDPlus #PACJA #ClimateJustice #Morocco #LocalAction #CivilSociety #Sida #NDC #JustTransition

🌍⚡ The green transition is coming for Africa's resources. The question is — on whose terms? #PACJA's Philip Kilonzo took the floor at the Shared Responsibility in Green Industrialisation and Climate Justice roundtable — a FEPS fringe event at S&D Africa Days — and reframed the entire conversation from the ground up. His central proposition was unambiguous: the defining political question for Africa and Europe is whether the green transition will dismantle or reinforce the structures of inequality that have historically constrained Africa's development. He laid out six dimensions of what genuine shared responsibility must look like: 🔹 Value addition — Processing and beneficiation must happen in Africa, not just extraction 🔹 Climate finance — Public finance at scale, not private finance that shifts goalposts 🔹 Policy coherence — Trade, finance, technology and debt must speak the same language 🔹 Energy justice — 630 million Africans without electricity. Ignoring this is green extraction, not green transition 🔹 Ownership — Patents, technology and supply chains remain externally controlled. That must change 🔹 Debt restructuring — Africa cannot invest in its future while servicing external debts The room sharpened the conversation further: 💬 "They are not critical minerals. They are strategic minerals" — strategic for Africa's development, jobs and social security. Terminology shapes agenda. Africa must own its narrative. 💬 Green jobs cannot become another sector where expertise is imported while Africa's youth remain unemployed. Every green investment must carry binding commitments to train locals and transfer technology. 💬 Communities are not being consulted when mining licenses are granted. Land is cultural. You cannot tell people to move so lithium can be extracted. 💬 One European voice named the pattern plainly: "We think we know best. We bring our people, our knowledge. Only when the revenue dries up do we let it transition to something local. We need to cut this off." The closing message from FEPS Vice President Uwe anchored it all: shared responsibility means differentiated responsibility for a joint future — requiring a mentality change on both sides. European institutions must move beyond their Western-centric lens. African governments must be accountable to their own communities. And workers, women, youth and Indigenous peoples must have a genuine seat at every table where decisions about their land and future are made. 🔗 pacja.org #GreenIndustrialisation #ClimateJustice #PACJA #JustTransition #StrategicMinerals #AfricaEurope #FEPS #EnergyJustice

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💡 Yesterday's conversation in Brussels left no room for comfortable silence. At the Tax Justice & Financial System Reforms roundtable — a FEPS Europe fringe event at S&D Africa Days — African and European voices came together to confront a system that has, for too long, worked against the continent it was supposed to serve. The numbers tell a brutal story: 🔹 All 55 African countries are IMF members — yet hold only 6.5% of voting rights 🔹 The DRC holds 76% of the world's cobalt — yet refines only 3%, earning $7 million while the same cobalt generates $6 billion once processed elsewhere 🔹 Africa loses an estimated $1 trillion through repatriation and excessive tax incentives to multinationals 🔹 70% of Nigerian businesses run on diesel — yet face carbon taxes routing $9 billion annually into EU budgets for an emission profile forced upon them by decades of refused financing The solutions on the table were bold and specific — from binding value addition clauses in Economic Partnership Agreements, to recycling CBAM revenues back to the countries whose exports generated them, to the UN Tax Convention as the most promising lever for reforming rules that were never written with Africa in mind. One line from the room summed it up perfectly: "We make the value. But someone else gets the money." That has to change. And the conversation continues TODAY. 👇 📌 Shared Responsibility in Green Industrialisation & Climate Justice 📅 Today | Wednesday, July 1, 2026 | 3:30 PM 🔗 Register now: lnkd.in/d7ear7S5 If yesterday proved anything, it's that the knowledge is in the room. The solutions exist. What remains is the political will — and the pressure to demand it. Join us today. 🌍✊ #TaxJustice #ClimateJustice #GreenIndustrialisation #Africa #GlobalSouth #CBAM #CriticalMinerals #UNTaxConvention #FinancialReform #S&DAfrica #FEPS #YOSUDA

A quick reminder that registration is still open for both upcoming sessions. 📌 Tax Justice & Financial System Reforms A timely discussion on strengthening tax administrations, closing financial loopholes, curbing illicit financial flows, and mobilising domestic resources for equitable development across Africa. 📌 Shared Responsibility in Green Industrialisation & Climate Justice A focused conversation on Africa's role in green industrialisation and what genuine shared responsibility looks like in the global climate justice agenda Both sessions are free and open, offering valuable insight for anyone working in or passionate about climate justice, economic policy, and sustainable development in Africa. If these conversations align with your work or interests, we encourage you to register and join us. #TaxJustice #ClimateJustice #GreenIndustrialisation #SustainableDevelopment #FinancialReform #Africa #YOSUDA

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Imagine a future where inequality is a relic of the past—where the financial and economic systems truly serve everyone, especially in African countries! We invite you to an invigorating discussion on Fighting inequalities via tax justice and financial system reforms, which will

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Before climate justice was a global conversation, she was already building the movement. In 2008, Fathiya Abdulmajid sat among the co-founders of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance — the only woman in the room. Seventeen years later, the alliance she helped birth has grown into Africa's most powerful civil society voice on climate, representing over 2,000 organisations across 54 countries. In this powerful interview, Fathiya takes us back to where it all began — the vision, the resistance, the milestones, and the communities that made every battle worth fighting. Her story is not just PACJA's story. It is a testament to what African women have always known: that justice doesn't wait for an invitation. It gets built. 🎥 Watch now. 👆 youtu.be/H1TtNZ7zrRU?si… 🔗 pacja.org #PACJA #ClimateJustice #AfricanWomen #WomenInClimate #ClimateLeadership #FathiyaAbdulmajid #17Years #GlobalSouth

Imagine a future where inequality is a relic of the past—where the financial and economic systems truly serve everyone, especially in African countries! We invite you to an invigorating discussion on Fighting inequalities via tax justice and financial system reforms, which will delve into the transformative power of strengthening tax administrations, closing those pesky tax loopholes, and curbing illicit financial flows. We'll unveil the importance of increasing financial transparency as a catalyst for change! Join us as we explore how these vital reforms can unleash a wave of domestic resource mobilization, fund high-quality public services, and pave the way for a fairer, more sustainable development across the continent. Together, we can turn the tide and create a more equitable world! REGISTER HERE: Roundtable: Tax justice and international financial reforms - FEPS fringe event at S&D Africa Days Date & Time: Jun 30, 2026 03:00 PM Link: feps-europe-eu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… ------------------------------------------------------------ Roundtable: Shared responsibility in green industrialization and climate justice - FEPS fringe event at S&D Africa Days Date & Time: Jul 1, 2026 02:30 PM Link: feps-europe-eu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We closed our #SB64 itinerary in Bonn the way we started it — with Africa's future at the center of the conversation. Our final side event tackled one of the most critical — and most overlooked — dimensions of the just transition debate: critical minerals and what Africa's role in the global value chain must look like. The world needs Africa. That is not an opinion — it is a geological fact. The minerals that will power the global energy transition sit beneath African soil. But if history is any guide, need alone has never guaranteed justice. Here is what PACJA put on the table: 🔹 Transition is inevitable — but it must not repeat the extraction trap. The world cannot pursue energy transition on the backs of African communities through the same unjust extractive models that have left the continent vulnerable for generations. 🔹 Africa must move up the value chain. From raw extraction to processing, manufacturing and the production of high-value end products — this is the shift that transforms critical minerals from a resource curse into a continental opportunity. 🔹 Just transition creates jobs and revenue that fund adaptation. A continent that earns fairly from its own resources is a continent better equipped to protect its communities from the climate crisis it did not cause. 🔹 Regional collaboration is the multiplier. Africa's comparative advantages across countries are strongest when leveraged together — through regional value chains that keep the economic benefits on the continent. The energy transition needs Africa. Now Africa must ensure that need is matched with equity, investment and respect. #SB64 #UNFCCC #CriticalMinerals #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #PACJA #Bonn2026 #AfricaRising #ValueChain #EnergyTransition #GlobalSouth

On the sidelines of #SB64 in Bonn, #PACJA joined the Africa-Europe Foundation (AEF) and the African Union Commission in co-hosting a landmark high-level convening bringing together African and European climate leaders under one roof — and one shared purpose. "Fostering Africa-Europe Climate Diplomacy and Cooperation: On the Road to COP32 and Strengthened Africa-Europe Climate Partnership" The room carried weight. Around the table sat: 🔹 Representatives of the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) 🔹 Senior officials from the European Commission and #EU institutions 🔹 Climate Envoys from the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark 🔹 The Chief Advisor to The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia — representing the #COP32 Presidency 🔹 The African Union Commission 🔹 Civil society, multilateral institutions and philanthropic organisations 🔹 And PACJA Executive Director Dr. Mithika Mwenda, PhD This was not a courtesy meeting. It was a strategic conversation about what meaningful Africa-Europe climate cooperation looks like on the road to COP32 — and what it must deliver for frontline communities who cannot afford another cycle of unmet commitments. Africa and Europe share a neighbourhood, a climate, and a responsibility. The question is whether they can match that with shared ambition. #SB64 #UNFCCC #AfricaEurope #ClimateJustice #PACJA #COP32 #ClimateCooperation #AfricanUnion #Bonn2026 #ClimateDiplomacy

⚖️ Today at #SB64, #PACJA's Dr. @mithikamwenda stood with Afrodescendant communities and said what needed to be said: Climate reparations are not charity. They are a debt — owed by wealthy, high-emitting nations to Africa, to Black communities globally, and to every community paying the price for a crisis they did not cause. The ICJ agrees. 141 UN member states agree. The Paris Agreement agrees. #ClimateReparations #ClimateJustice #PACJA #SB64 #CBDR

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🌊The ocean is not a side issue in the climate crisis. It is at the heart of it. Yesterday, #PACJA joined @WWF and other partners for a high-level consultative dialogue at #SB64 on "Raising Ambition on the Oceans-Climate Nexus" — an urgent conversation that is long overdue on the multilateral stage. Representing PACJA was Philip Kilonzo, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Communication, who brought to the table the Alliance's track record in building exactly these kinds of cross-agenda synergies — from dialogues hosted at the Africa Pavilion at COP30 in Belém, to the recently concluded 7th Africa Climate Talks at AFRSD. Philip underscored what PACJA has championed consistently: that biodiversity — including ocean biodiversity — must sit at the centre of climate action, not on the margins. And that achieving this requires robust, inclusive processes that bring non-state actors meaningfully into the conversation — not as observers, but as drivers of change. The dialogue surfaced a hard truth: the ocean remains remote to most civil society actors driving climate action. Siloed implementation of multilateral agreements continues to block the very synergies needed to secure a climate-resilient future. National level action and global reform are two critical levers that must be pulled — together. One thing is clear: biodiversity conservation without integrity is greenwashing. And PACJA will continue calling it out. This conversation also marks the beginning of a potentially deeper collaboration between PACJA and WWF on strengthening the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus. #SB64 #UNFCCC #OceansAndClimate #ClimateJustice #PACJA #WWF #Biodiversity #RioConventions #OceanNexus #Bonn2026 #GlobalSouth

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The green transition conversation is incomplete without the money conversation. African countries are being asked to industrialise cleanly, decarbonise fast, and service debt simultaneously — while holding the smallest share of the capital needed to do any of it. The architecture of global finance wasn't designed with this in mind. Neither was most of the climate policy coming out of Brussels. As part of the S&D Africa Days, @FEPS_Europe is convening two sessions that sit at the intersection of these tensions — bringing together African youth representatives, trade union leadership, legal experts on international investment, and sovereign debt specialists to challenge the assumptions built into the current framework. Green industrialisation without tax justice is just a new set of extraction conditions with better branding. The first session asks what shared responsibility actually looks like when the countries most exposed to climate risk are also the least positioned to finance the transition. The second goes upstream — to the debt structures, tax frameworks, and financial rules that determine whether African economies have fiscal space to act at all. These are not parallel conversations. They are the same conversation, running on different tracks. Join us for both. 🗓 30 June · 15:00–16:30 CEST — Tax justice and international financial reforms 🔗 lnkd.in/d6gEJS5d 🗓 1 July · 14:30–16:00 CEST — Shared responsibility in green industrialisation and climate justice 🔗 lnkd.in/dwXYp2Ak #AfricaDays #SDAfrica #ClimateJustice #TaxJustice #GreenIndustrialisation #DebtJustice #FEPS #PACJA #AFRODAD #EUAfrica #JustTransition

Two continents. One shared vision for climate justice. On the sidelines of #SB64 in Bonn, #PACJA and the #AmazonEnvironmentalResearchInstitute (IPAM) made history by signing a landmark Memorandum of Understanding, formalising a powerful South-South partnership between Africa and the Amazon. Founded in Brazil, IPAM is a leading scientific research institution dedicated to biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the protection of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes — some of the world's most critical ecosystems. Their work centres on empowering local communities and shaping public policy for the responsible use of natural resources. PACJA brings together over 2,000 organisations from 54 African countries, advancing climate justice for the continent's most vulnerable communities. IPAM champions the rights of Amazonian communities and the integrity of the world's largest rainforest. Both regions are home to frontline communities bearing the heaviest costs of a climate crisis they did not create. Both are fighting for forests, for people, and for a future built on justice — not extraction. This MOU is the beginning of a deeper collaboration — connecting Africa's climate justice movement with one of South America's most respected environmental research institutions, and strengthening the voice of the Global South in shaping the future of our planet. Because the forests of Africa and the Amazon don't just belong to us. They belong to the world. 🌱 #SB64 #UNFCCC #PACJA #IPAM #SouthSouthCooperation #ClimateJustice #Amazon #Africa #Bonn2026 #ForestNations

📰 The message from Bonn is getting louder — and the world is listening. This week, PACJA's SB64 press statement made headlines across Africa. "Africa is not asking for charity. Africa is demanding justice" — the line is now traveling through newsrooms from Ghana to Nigeria. Coverage is highlighting our core demands: real delivery on climate finance, a just transition that includes the 600 million Africans without electricity, and adaptation outcomes that reflect people's lived realities — not just technical metrics. Outlets are also amplifying our alarm over the omission of Loss & Damage and National Adaptation Plans from the SB64 agenda. Two newsrooms. One unmistakable message. Africa's voice is being heard. 📖 Read more: 🔗 NewsGhana: newsghana.com.gh/africa-demands… 🔗 EnviroNews Nigeria: environewsnigeria.com/sb64-african-c… #SB64 #UNFCCC #ClimateJustice #PACJA #Bonn2026 #AfricaDemandingJustice

🤝 Behind every public stand is a partnership being built. PACJA convened a meeting with Civil Society Organisations and the newly appointed Chair of the African Group of Negotiators (@AGNChairUNFCCC ) — and we started with congratulations, as he steps into the leadership of Africa's climate negotiations at a defining moment. In his remarks, the Chair affirmed something we've always believed: CSOs are not bystanders in these negotiations — we are drivers of outcomes. He pointed to the Loss & Damage Fund secured at COP27 in Egypt as a direct result of sustained civil society pressure. He was clear on what's at stake at SB64 and beyond: adaptation, climate finance, and Loss & Damage remain the non-negotiables for Africa — and developed countries must be held to their commitments under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement on climate finance mobilisation. PACJA's response was simple: we stand with the AGN. Our commitment to supporting Africa's negotiating position — in the rooms, in the statements, and in the streets — does not waver. One continent. One voice. One demand for justice. 🌍✊ #SB64 #UNFCCC #PACJA #AGN #ClimateFinance #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice

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🎬 Five years. Eight countries. One unstoppable movement. The African Activists for Climate Justice (@aacjinaction) end-of-project documentary is here — and it tells the story in the words of those who lived it. From grassroots communities to global climate negotiations, AACJ united women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples across Africa to demand the justice they deserve. This is Africa's climate story. Told by Africa. 🌍✊ 🔗 Watch now: youtu.be/pt9cT7NQCwE #AACJ #ClimateJustice #Africa #PACJA #ClimateAction #YouthForClimate #WomenInClimate #GlobalSouth

🎙️ We just walked out of our first press conference at hashtag#SB64 in Bonn — and we left nothing on the table. Speaking on behalf of African civil society organisations at the #UNFCCC negotiations, #PACJA delivered a message that cannot be ignored: the era of delay, dilution and deferral is over. Here is what we told the world today: Africa is responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions — yet its people are losing homes, farms, and lives to droughts, floods and cyclones they did not cause. That is not a climate problem. That is a justice problem. We raised the alarm on something deeply troubling — Loss & Damage and National Adaptation Plans have been quietly dropped from the SB64 agenda. We stand firmly with the Africa Group of Negotiators: negotiations without these are not negotiations at all. They are an abdication of justice. Our three demands, stated clearly today in Bonn: 🔹 Climate finance off the spreadsheet and into communities — public, grant-based, predictable, directed to women, youth, Indigenous Peoples and frontline populations. 🔹 A just transition built for Africa, not imposed on it — 600 million Africans still lack electricity. Decarbonisation without development is not justice. 🔹 Adaptation treated as the survival issue it is — not a footnote, not an aspiration. A funded, implemented, measurable commitment. SB64 must not become another procedural stop on the road to #COP31. The credibility of the entire UNFCCC process is on the line. Africa is not asking for charity. Africa is demanding justice. Read the full press statement: pacja.org #SB64 #UNFCCC #ClimateJustice #PACJA1 #ClimateFinance #JustTransition #LossAndDamage #Bonn2026

🌍 Not in Bonn for #SB64? We've got you covered. Join @PACJA's first Press Conference at SB64 — LIVE today at 13:00 Bonn Time (GMT+2). We'll be speaking directly to the issues that matter most for Africa's climate justice agenda. Don't miss it. 📺 Watch live here: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB64_113161/ag… #UNFCCC #ClimateJustice #PACJA #SB64 #Bonn2026

🌍 Climate justice doesn't begin when the gavel drops. It begins in the rooms before the rooms. On June 5th, ahead of the official opening of #SB64 in Bonn, @PACJA joined civil society partners from the Philippines, Brazil, and Colombia — united under the Fastenaktion climate advocacy network — for a critical pre-negotiation workshop. Why does this matter? Because carbon markets are expanding fast — and the safeguards meant to protect Indigenous Peoples and local communities are full of gaps. Because climate negotiation dynamics are complex, and frontline communities deserve advocates who understand every angle. Because Africa loses up to $7 billion annually to climate impacts — a figure projected to hit $50 billion by 2040 — and that demands a coordinated, informed global south voice. This workshop was that coordination in action. Cross-regional. Cross-continental. Uncompromising. And this is just the start. Over the next two weeks at SB64 (June 8–18, World Conference Centre Bonn), PACJA will be pressing Africa's agenda through press conferences, an MOU signing with IPAM, and a landmark Africa–Brazil dialogue shaping the road to COP31 and COP32. Africa did not create this crisis. But Africa will help solve it — on its own terms. 🔗 Follow every step of our SB64 journey: pacja.org #SB64 #UNFCCC #ClimateJustice #PACJA #CarbonMarkets #IndigenousRights #GlobalSouth

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