Objectives

Purpose

The purpose of the Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice is to awaken, equip, and inspire a new generation of actors in Africa and globally to address the question of climate justice, including intra and intergenerational equity.

Objective

To enhance the capacity of Africans and our allies to advance climate justice perspectives through local, national, sub-national, regional and global interventions

To equip a new generation of actors with knowledge, skills and tools to contextualize climate change concepts relevant to Africa and global south realities;

To build existing climate justice competences through information landscape, peer learning and reciprocal mentoring in global south and beyond;

To impart relevant advocacy skills amongst actors especially from Africa and global south to address climate justice and equity discourses based on research and experiences at local, national, regional and international levels; and

To foster and expand networks and collaborations that advance climate justice in the international climate discourse and interventions, particularly adaptation, mitigation and resilience building against climate crisis among the vulnerable and marginalized groups (VMGs) in Africa and global south

Nairobi Summer School on Climate Justice (NSSCJ)

Message of Impact

Climate change, whether caused by extreme weather or rising sea levels, can have a huge social impact, particularly on historically marginalised or underserved groups, and can disrupt people’s lives in many and unanticipated ways. Young individuals and people of all ages in developing countries, which emit fewer emissions per capita than large polluters, are disproportionately represented among those who will suffer the most from climate change. Inequality rises after natural disasters such as hurricanes.