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What Does It Take to Win Climate Justice?

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine (It is in the shelter of each other that the people live) – Irish proverb As 2020 lurches towards a close, many of us in the UK will feel little cause for celebration. This was, after all, a year in which our government facilitated the early deaths of over 60,000 people from Covid-19. A year in which underwhelming climate policies were painted thick with . But 2020 also saw fierce resistance around the world, most recently in the Indian farmers’ protests. We can look to various parts of the world for inspiration, not only for how to fight, but how to win.

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Activists are fighting for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa Chinese coal projects threaten to dirty those plans

Activists are fighting for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa Chinese coal projects threaten to dirty those plans
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Chinese coal projects threaten to wreck plans for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chinese coal projects threaten to wreck plans for a renewable future in Sub-Saharan Africa CNN 12/10/2020 By Eoin McSweeney, CNN Business © Lintao Zhang/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with his Zimbabwean counterpart President, Emmerson Mnangagwa on September 5, 2018, a day after the conclusion of the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation. When the Ghanaian government agreed to coordinate with Shenzen Energy Group, a Chinese energy company, to build a 7,000-megawatt coal power plant in the country s Ekumfi district, Chibeze Ezekiel was concerned. He knew the proposed plant s wastewater, ash pit and mercury emissions posed serious health and environmental risks to the local fishing and farming communities. Access to clean drinking water was under threat from the plant s sulfur dioxide emissions and associated acid rain, and there would have been a clear impact on the regional climate.

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