IT IS TIME FOR ACTION! The Sierra Leone Consortium for Climate Change and Sustainable Development () in Collaboration with the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) is celebrating a two week long African Week of Actions for climate justice from the 15th -30th November, 2014. This year’s celebration will be done on a low key as a result of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus in the country, which has prevented us to undertake a number of activities including tree planting. This year’s theme is “It is time for Action”. It focuses on climate change actions and encourages people to step-up their efforts to build and exercise the power of collective action in addressing the climate change crisis. The week of action is an Africa-wide annual initiative aimed at stimulating actions and reinforcing efforts to exercise the power of collective action. Since 2009, the initiative has linked actions from local to national and international levels, progressively increased the number of people mobilized, expanded the numbers of countries and communities partnering, raised the scale, intensity and boldness of our actions, enhanced our strength and power to contribute in the best way possible in the prevention of planetary catastrophe. The changing climate has become the rallying point for unifying people from both the North and the South. The people have realized that the solution to climate change does not rely on their leaders, but communities themselves. The march towards a new climate change agreement in 2015 will be a tortuous, yet dramatic journey. Stakeholders – Governments, civil society and private sector – are all gearing towards the UNFCCC-COP21 in Paris, when a treaty to succeed the second commitment of Kyoto Protocol will be concluded. The momentum to fix climate crisis comes at the backdrop of the release of the Summary for Policy Makers by IPCC in its 5th Assessment Report that cited evidence of increasing warming globe. Meanwhile, consensus is unequivocally strong that global collaboration is needed to surmount the increasingly debilitating adverse effects of climate change particularly in poor communities, but it is time for action now.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:21:54 +0000
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