Rabat – The Climate Justice Camp, which will take place between September 26 and 30 in Tunisia, is set to bring together around 400 young climate-focused organizers, advocates, and campaigners from the Middle East, Africa, and other regions of the Global South.
The event, which targets movements and local groups that are involved in achieving climate justice, seeks to help the participants “create strategies and demand a fair and just response to the climate crisis from world leaders,” the organizers indicated in a statement.
The camp will be an opportunity for people coming from regions that are “most vulnerable to the effect of climate change” to “build bridges of solidarity and joint action” with climate actors in the global south, added the statement.
The event also seeks “set collective strategies,” with the aim of spreading awareness about the urgent need to bring about a “systematic change” for the benefit of the environment, according to the statement.
Ahmed El Droubi, Regional Campaigns Manager at Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa said: “The least responsible nations and communities are suffering the most from the impacts of the climate emergency, which is further deepening historical injustices.”
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The camp will come less than two months ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will take place in Egypt. El Droubi added, “In November, world leaders will be making decisions in Egypt, which will affect the future of our communities.”
He stressed the need for the Global South to “be at the front of this process to apply pressure for real climate action rather than it being another photo opportunity producing empty words and pledges.”
Tasnim Tayari, the Head of Citizen Engagement at I Watch Organization, highlighted that communities in the Global South have limited “access to things like the internet, transportation, and funding which enables groups in other parts of the world to organize as a movement.”
She concluded, “The Climate Justice Camp gives us mass access to a space where we can work together to build a climate conversation centered on the Global South, and continue to remain connected.”
