African Peoples Movement on Climate Change | Mobilization for Climate Justice

African Peoples Movement on Climate Change | Mobilization for Climate Justice: "African Peoples Movement on Climate Change
PostDateIcon September 11th, 2009

Confronting the Climate Crisis: Preparing for Copenhagen and Beyond

Nairobi, Kenya, 30 August 2009

We, the leaders of various people's movements, Community Based
Groups, Academia, NGOs and Civil Society Organizations meeting in
Nairobi under the banner of Peoples Movement on Climate Change (PMCC)
to discuss strategies to confront the Climate Change Crisis for
Copenhagen and beyond from 27 to 28 August 2009,

Do hereby affirm that:

Irresponsible and unaccountable consumption concentrated in the
Industrialised North, and some countries of the South has and
continues to cost Africa by creating an ecological crisis;



The people of Africa, as well as other developing nations are
creditors of a massive ecological debt;

This ecological debt continues to accrue today through the continued
plunder and exploitation of Africa's resources, its people, labor,
and economies;

The groups most affected by climate change are indigenous peoples,
women, especially poor women in the rural areas, noting that the
phenomenon has a connection with resources such as land or water, and
related farming and business activities that they are specifically
engaged in;"