COP 30: African Group Rejects $125bn Tropical Forest Forever Facility
At the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) in Belem, Brazil, the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) Coalition has strongly rejected the newly launched Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), describing it as a dangerous and misleading attempt to financialise nature under the guise of protecting it. The TFFF, spearheaded by Brazil, is […]
Climate activists renew call for reparation for Africa
The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay Coalition has wrapped up a two-day training for journalists across the continent on climate change reporting, with a call for sustained coverage of the climate crisis from an Afrocentric perspective. The coalition also renewed its call for just climate reparations for Africa and the Global South, which bear the […]
Africa MBPP Backs G77, China’s Call For Climate Finance Trillions, Tech Transfer
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 18 NOV 2024: At the ongoing COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) Coalition has thrown its weight behind a demand by developing countries led by G77 and China for improved and just climate finance reparation in the trillions from developed countries, and also urgent technology transfer and […]
AYETORO, THE SINKING COMMUNITY
Ayetoro built its own homes, schools, healthcare infrastructure, tourist facilities, industries and an agro-marine economy. Now, about 90 per cent of the once thriving coastal settlement is gone, submerged by rising sea waves amid the exploratory activities of oil multinationals, write ROBERT EGBE, OGUNLADE OLAMIDE, ZIKORA IBEH and NEIMA HELLEN Ayetoro had 45 streets. Now only two remain. […]
Des ONG africaines veulent faire payer les « gros pollueurs »
Elles se sont jointes à un réseau d’OSC à travers le monde pour inciter les gouvernants africains à prendre des mesures qui pousseraient les entreprises polluantes à réparer le préjudice causé. « Faire payer » aux industries polluantes les dommages qu’elles causent au climat et à l’environnement. C’est désormais le combat d’une centaine d’organismes de la société […]
Big polluters must pay for climate crisis, activists say
The Global Liability Roadmap, launched in several countries across the world, aims to make big polluters pay for the harms they cause the environment. Polluting industries should be held liable for the damage caused to the climate and environment, climate justice advocates said at the launch of a Liability Roadmap on Tuesday. The Global Liability […]
