Participants are discussing the environmental taxes, assess how effective carbon taxes are in Africa, and evaluate the role of tax incentives in driving green energy initiatives
Tax Justice, Climate Justice and Natural Resource Justice For Sustainable Climate Finance
Tax justice stakeholders gathered for the Sustainable Climate Finance and Taxation in Africa Civil Society Learning Event.
This important conference brings together leaders from across the continent to address pressing issues of resource justice, fiscal justice and climate justice, paving the way for transformative change in sustainable climate finance.
Participants are discussing the environmental taxes, assess how effective carbon taxes are in Africa, and evaluate the role of tax incentives in driving green energy initiatives
This learning event focused on breaking down silos and fostering collective advocacy for sustainable climate finance reform in the region.
The event also aimed to identify key principles for sustainable natural resource governance while promoting climate and tax justice, particularly through national tax policies related to climate change in Africa.
Participants engaged in discussions on how to improve sustainable natural resource governance through tax justice, explored international tax concepts, and worked towards the finalization of an outcome statement.
“Today’s theme at the Test Justice Network for Africa convening fundamentally to the core is to set the context. The context being the climate injustices that are currently ongoing across the African continent.We see a climate collapse that is being operationalized through climatic shocks. By climatic shocks we see that there’s higher temperatures, droughts, cyclones, floodings. So basically we are in a state of emergency essentially and one of the key sessions was to really fundamentally to highlight that,” said Dean Bebe, Senior Just Transitions and Campaigns Advisor at PowerShift Africa.
Participants are discussing the environmental taxes, assess how effective carbon taxes are in Africa, and evaluate the role of tax incentives in driving green energy initiatives
The Senior Just Transitions and Campaigns Advisor also highlighted that Africa has potential. “The second aspect is to also fundamentally position Africa and also explain the potential that Africa has as a continent. Such potential that could lead to help Africa as a continent realize how it can emerge as a global superpower. Particularly in the discussion around renewable energy given the background context that over 600 million Africans lack energy access and a billion do not have alternative clean cooking.”
Participants are discussing the environmental taxes, assess how effective carbon taxes are in Africa, and evaluate the role of tax incentives in driving green energy initiatives
“And this is off the basis that if we continue on this trajectory we are not tapping into renewable energy. If we continue on this trajectory that is fossil fuels by oil, coal and gas activities we are looking at over 720 million people without energy access by 2030. So essentially the other aspect of the session is to try and paint that light and how Africa can leverage its abundant natural resources in order to operationalize and meet its current developmental needs,” added Bebe.
