Drought crisis in northern and eastern Kenya
Kenya is facing its worst drought in a decade, with 2.4 million people expected to be going hungry by November. The fast-emerging humanitarian crisis is not only the result of two consecutive poor rainy seasons in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands region – an arc of under-developed territory in the north and east of the county. Needs are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity, as well as by pests and diseases. Household maize stocks are well below the five-year average, and both livestock and milk production have fallen, driving up prices. A glut in the livestock market, as people sell off their animals, is further eroding pastoralists’ earnings. They are already forced to walk longer distances in search of water and to forage for their livestock, resulting in a spike in inter-communal tensions. Upcoming short rains, due to fall from October to December, are also forecast to be below average, resulting yet again in poor harvests and worsening livestock conditions next year. 

We are on Twitter against the ANP (National Petroleum Agency) with the hashtag #LeilãoFóssilnão, come join us!

https://twitter.com/JuanCar22798153/status/1445074441810157568?s=19

Burning fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas - emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the earth’s atmosphere, leading to global climate change. This has huge impacts for all life on earth, especially those least responsible for the crisis!

Since 2015, 60 biggest banks have invested 3.8 trillion US dollars in fossil fuel.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUr-aGilBGW/?utm_medium=copy_link

Latest #MAPARecommends from one of our activists!

There is no climate justice without debt justice! Most climate finance / "aid" comes in loans and so MAPA countries often end up in debt and having to pay so much interest to Global North countries when trying to recover from the loss and damages and trying to adapt to the climate crisis the Global North countries caused!

Debt by David Graeber:

Written by an activist from Occupy Wall Street, and academician left disenfranchised by Yale University after this work — Graeber brilliantly traces the history of debt and the gift economy, down to the dark roots of money in war and sex. “Debt: the first 5,000 years” is a classical work of economic anthropology.

At least 20 people, including seven children, were killed and more than 300 injured after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Harnai , Balochistan in the early hours of Thursday . We stand in solidarity with the affected families by this disasters.


https://twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status/1446108802261131265?t=9McFn_54ZWYGqdjUMmh5LQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/FFFbalochistan/status/1446009458874793986?t=RmvZYfHjGAfdcNbJn1OgMA&s=19

Update Afghanistan: We still need help! 🆘

It‘s urgent. We still have activists at high danger in Afghanistan, we need to evacuate as many people as far as possible and as safe as possible. We have also 23 people in Pakistan, we need to get them visas for safe countries. But we do not have enough money for further actions.

We produced a video with Greta and two activists in Pakistan, Kamila and Shamshad, explaining the situation. Please share the video, this message and donate here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-climate-activists-in-afghanistan

Video and Captions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13jVjqHJ3W-PVgX5PKGQMkASO_wrBDewm?usp=sharing

If you have questions feel free to reach out to Line (https://wa.me/491786163834 / https://news.1rj.ru/str/linenie) from the Activists in Risk Zones (ARZ) Team!

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Climate change is already hitting Africa hard – from extreme weather events, to locust plagues, and failed harvests. But, international research and policy bodies, and ‘hot lists’ of influential climate scientists, rarely include African scientists. With United Nations climate talks set to take place in the United Kingdom in November, Selly Amutabi and Michael Kaloki ask whether African science can influence these critical international negotiations. We find out which climate scientists and activists the world should be watching, and why climate adaptation and mitigation depends on African science.

https://africanarguments.org/2021/06/podcast-who-are-africas-climate-superstars/

Exclsusion of climate scientists from the global south has been happening for decades. Now it the time to play an amplifying role because their voices are crucial in the fight for climate justice.

https://qz.com/africa/2021448/reuters-hot-list-of-climate-scientists-excludes-global-south/

an environmental activist with prey lang network, an organization that works to stop illegal logging in prey lang forest in cambodia has just been convicted - Amnesty international reports
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/10/cambodian-environmental-activist-convicted/

Whilst the research focuses on extinction rebellion, some of the findings that exacerbate exclusion are still relevant in all Europe-First movements - including Fridays for future.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2021.1970728

Degrowth from the perspective of the Global South

https://www.ibon.org/who-is-afraid-of-degrowth-a-global-south-economic-perspective/

whilst striking, protesting and speaking up for your rights in a right, in many parts of the globe it is considered a priviledge.

A fridays for future Kenya activist, Geoffrey Mboya, an activist who has been speaking up against local companies in Mukuru which have been causing pollution and the resultant health effects was attacked in Nairobi.
Read his story here and make sure to amplify:
https://medium.com/@geoffreybuge7/i-was-attacked-injured-threatened-fb7cde2cb6c9

there is no climate justice without debt justice.

global north countries have contributed the most to the climate crisis whilst global south countries are bearing the brunt of it. Now, global south countries need climate finance that will contribute to climate adaptation and mitigation measures. Global north countries (Annex 1 countries - according to the UNFCCC) are to contribute 100 Billion USDs each year that are to go to support global south countries ( Annex 2 countries) but this amount is supposed to be paid back.

we need non-debt creating climate finance!
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/eurodad/pages/2510/attachments/original/1634117579/climate-and-debt-faqs-EN-final.pdf?1634117579

Attention: please read the thread.



Please read it
https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1329200192013348871?s=20

Youth call for a fossil fuel treaty:

http://fossilfueltreaty.org/youth-letter