Africa is set to Burn

Friends of the Earth Africa argues that the Paris draft agreement is insufficient to prevent catastrophic warming in Africa, fails to address climate debt or loss and damage, and promotes market-based mechanisms like REDD that facilitate land and water grabs.

• The Paris draft agreement is criticized for putting the world on a trajectory for 3 to 4 degrees of warming, which the document states would result in 5 to 8 degrees of warming for Africa, leading to catastrophic heatwaves, droughts, floods, the drowning of coastal cities, and the collapse of food and ecological systems.
• The document asserts that the draft agreement fails to recognize the climate debt owed to Africa and provides insufficient resources for adaptation while absolving imperial powers of liability for 'loss and damage'.
• The statement claims that climate finance promises are manipulated by imperial powers who rebrand development aid and count private investments and loans as climate finance.
• The document argues that the draft agreement's framing of 'sustainable development' in market terms, specifically through carbon trading and REDD (reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), is associated with land and water grabs.

APA

admin (2015). Africa is set to Burn. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/friends-of-the-earth-africa-africa-is-set-to-burn/

Chicago

admin. Africa is set to Burn. Friends of the Earth International, 2015. https://www.foei.org/friends-of-the-earth-africa-africa-is-set-to-burn/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=admin |title=Africa is set to Burn |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=11 December 2015 |url=https://www.foei.org/friends-of-the-earth-africa-africa-is-set-to-burn/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{admin2015africa, author = {admin}, title = {{Africa is set to Burn}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2015}, month = dec, url = {https://www.foei.org/friends-of-the-earth-africa-africa-is-set-to-burn/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }