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Zim Council of Churches in Climate change campaigns
21 Sep 2015 at 07:25hrs | Views
Zimbabwe Council of Churches has revealed that it is part of the Pan African coordinating team in the 'We-Have-Faith: Act Now for Climate Justice' campaign running in Southern and East Africa, and the 'ACT Now for Climate Justice' campaign which is a global campaign.
According to its statement the campaign seeks to bring together faith communities, women and youth to mobilize the public across Africa for climate justice, creating their awareness on Climate Change and collecting 1 Million signatures petition, aimed at encouraging world leaders to urgently act on Climate Change.
"The Campaign involves 10 cyclist from Zimbabwe cycling from 14 to28 September 2015, from Plumtree to Kariba. The cycling will involve nine countries. The local cyclists get the baton stick from Botswana and hand it to Zambia until it gets to Kenya. As part of the awareness we are holding a concert," reads the statement.
The campaigners invited all to attend the concert as it raise awareness together with other African countries.
The objectives of the Campaign are to strengthen the Pan-African voice through mobilisation of 1 million Climate Justice petitions across the continent and support youth and faith leaders to engage and influence COP21, to mobilise communities across the African continent, raise their awareness on climate change and support their engagement with COP21 policy discourse through collection of 1,000,000 petitions and planting 1 Million trees and to support African Youth and faith leaders to influence their national governments' position towards COP21, as well as influencing the same process in Paris, France.
According to its statement the campaign seeks to bring together faith communities, women and youth to mobilize the public across Africa for climate justice, creating their awareness on Climate Change and collecting 1 Million signatures petition, aimed at encouraging world leaders to urgently act on Climate Change.
"The Campaign involves 10 cyclist from Zimbabwe cycling from 14 to28 September 2015, from Plumtree to Kariba. The cycling will involve nine countries. The local cyclists get the baton stick from Botswana and hand it to Zambia until it gets to Kenya. As part of the awareness we are holding a concert," reads the statement.
The campaigners invited all to attend the concert as it raise awareness together with other African countries.
The objectives of the Campaign are to strengthen the Pan-African voice through mobilisation of 1 million Climate Justice petitions across the continent and support youth and faith leaders to engage and influence COP21, to mobilise communities across the African continent, raise their awareness on climate change and support their engagement with COP21 policy discourse through collection of 1,000,000 petitions and planting 1 Million trees and to support African Youth and faith leaders to influence their national governments' position towards COP21, as well as influencing the same process in Paris, France.
Source - Byo24News
