ABSTRACT
The African component of the climate justice movement is critical, given the continent’s extreme vulnerability to climate change, and the ‘climate debt’ it is owed, having not (South African and Nigerian-based corporations aside) contributed to the world’s greatest man-made crisis. The broader Climate Justice movement emerged in part from Africa during the early 2000s, fusing a variety of progressive political-economic and political-ecological currents. Africa soon became the source of some outstanding examples of social mobilization against climate change, its sources, and its impacts. One network, the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, built a coalition of 500 groups between 2008 and 2013. 1
