MANUEL SUR L’ACTION CLIMATIQUE

The document provides a comprehensive framework for Senegalese communities to understand climate change, assess their vulnerabilities, and take 'climate action' through legal empowerment. It details the specific climate risks facing Senegal, lists international and national legal obligations, and provides a step-by-step toolkit for advocacy, information access, and litigation.

• Climate change in Senegal is characterized by rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall, which threaten key economic sectors including agriculture, fishing, forestry, health, waste management, energy, and industry.
• The 'ecovillage' model in Senegal serves as a sustainable development strategy to increase rural resilience through six risk management strategies: good governance, diversification of income, renewable energy access, basic social services, improved living environments, and local private sector support.
• The Senegalese Constitution guarantees the right to a healthy environment, establishing that natural resources belong to the people and that the state is obligated to preserve and restore essential ecological processes.
• Legal empowerment for climate action involves a ten-step process: strengthening community leadership, conducting advocacy, gathering evidence, accessing information, participating in public processes, lobbying governments, peaceful protesting, petitioning, reporting environmental violations, 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 in the Niger Delta caused by companies like Shell and ENI to advocate for sustainable fishing over extractive industries.
• Senegal is a signatory to numerous international environmental agreements, including the UNFCCC, the Paris Agreement, and the Convention on Biological Diversity, which can be used as legal arguments in court to compel government action.

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.

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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} }