MANUEL SUR L’ACTION CLIMATIQUE

The 'Manuel sur l’action climatique' is a guide published by Natural Justice designed to strengthen climate resilience in Senegal through legal empowerment. It provides communities with a framework to understand climate change, identify their specific vulnerabilities, and utilize political and legal instruments to defend their rights and protect the environment.

• Climate change in Senegal poses significant risks to food security and poverty levels, particularly because 90% of the country's agriculture is rain-fed.
• The guide defines climate resilience as the capacity of social, economic, or ecological systems to face, react to, and reorganize after hazardous events while maintaining essential functions and adaptation capabilities.
• The 'ecovillage' model in Senegal serves as a sustainable development strategy to strengthen rural resilience through six risk management strategies: good governance, diversification of income, renewable energy access, basic social services, improved living environments, and support for a local private sector.
• The Senegalese Constitution guarantees the right to a healthy environment, establishing that natural resources belong to the people and must be used to improve their living conditions.
• The guide outlines a ten-step framework for taking climate action, ranging from strengthening community leadership and advocacy to accessing information, lobbying governments, and as a last resort, initiating legal action.
• Traditional and indigenous knowledge is presented as a vital tool for climate adaptation, offering sustainable practices such as rainwater harvesting, crop diversification, and coastal consolidation.
• The 'Fish Not Oil' initiative in Cayar highlights the risks of offshore gas exploitation, drawing parallels to the environmental disasters caused by Shell and ENI in the Niger Delta, where oil spills contaminated drinking water and fishing grounds.
• The guide emphasizes the right to access information from both public and private bodies under Article 32 of the Constitution, though exceptions exist for privacy, commercial secrets, and national security.
• The Great Green Wall (GMV) initiative aims to create a defense line against desertification through revegetation, with the Senegalese section extending 545 km in length and 15 km in width.

APA

Natural Justice (n.d.). MANUEL SUR L’ACTION CLIMATIQUE. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Manuel-sur-laction-climatique.pdf

Chicago

Natural Justice. MANUEL SUR L’ACTION CLIMATIQUE. n.d. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Manuel-sur-laction-climatique.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{naturaljusticendmanuel, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{MANUEL SUR L’ACTION CLIMATIQUE}}, institution = {Natural Justice}, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Manuel-sur-laction-climatique.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }