Africa – African Climate Dialogues
The African Climate Dialogues are a series of 5 online sessions co-hosted by faith groups and other civil society organisations from Africa and Europe. This is an initiative that leads up to the UN Climate Conference (COP 27) scheduled to take place from November 7-18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
The African Climate Dialogues is an initiative bringing together Church and civil society actors and allies including communities and religious leaders from across the African continent and European organisations to share African realities, personal experiences and perspectives on key topics related to the UN climate conference COP27 scheduled to take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, between 7-18 November 2022.
The African Climate Dialogues will take the form of a series of meetings on key topics throughout July - August- September 2022, when expert participants will be invited to share their perspectives, discuss priorities and put forward solutions. The outputs of these dialogues will be shared ahead of and during COP27 through a joint communiqué, which will support ongoing advocacy with a common voice (composed of inputs from climate realities on the ground, spiritual and technical reflections) directed at governments at the national, regional and international levels.
Inspired by Pope Francis’s call for synodality (journeying together in dialogue), these participatory dialogues will reflect on climate realities of communities on the ground through the lens of Catholic Social Teachings (CST), as well as climate science, distilling concrete policy outputs for COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The following sessions will be part of the dialogues:
• False Solutions, including the protection of the Congo Basin - 19th July
• Food Systems, Agriculture & Adaptation - 10th August
• Climate Finance – 31st August
• Loss and Damage - 8th September
• Migration & Displacement - 15th September
For general inquiries about the dialogues, please contact: Lydia Machaka, Climate Justice and Energy Officer, CIDSE ([email protected])
Source: Jesuits Africa
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