Deadline: 30-Sep-20
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southern Africa Office solicits expressions of interest from NGOs/CSOs in Comoros, Madagascar, Réunion Island, Seychelles interested in implementing climate justice projects in 2021.
Rapid global warming is causing unprecedented climate-related shocks in Africa and around the world: multi-year droughts, crop failures, severe water shortages, extreme weather events such as Cyclones Kenneth and Idai, day-zero (Cape Town), rising ocean temperatures
For these reasons, The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung has committed to supporting organisations that adopt a climate justice approach to holding those who have caused and continue to cause global warming and environmental plunder accountable for their actions.
Focus Areas
The foundation fund genuinely progressive, movement-building projects in the following areas:
- Advocacy for a just transition to green energy, especially in countries like South Africa where coal is still the main source of power.
- Calling on those who bear the greatest responsibility for pollution and ecocide to pay for adaptation and mitigation activities: oil/gas companies, etc.
- Protection of endangered marine species and habitats (coral reefs, sandy shores, mangroves, swamps and wetlands, etc.) from oil spills, over fishing, etc.
- Advocating for environmentally responsive budgeting by national and state governments. Global warming is not something that will happen in the future – it is already happening now!
- Advocacy for national climate change bills and other related legislation for clean air, clean energy, etc.
- Advocacy against mollification, super marketisation, unrelenting paving of green spaces, etc.
- Promotion of radical solutions to keep warming below 1.5 degrees.
- Promotion of progressive approaches for a critical mass of engaged, democratic socialist thinkers and activists.
Priority focus area is the South West Indian Ocean.
- It will take a collective effort by all stakeholders, public and private, to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees.
- They explicitly reject all forms of green washing, i.e. (false solutions) and will not work with partners who promote this approach.
Eligibility Criteria
- The local NGOs/CSOs from Comoros, Madagascar, Reunion Island, Seychelles are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://rosalux.co.za/publication/climate-justice-call-for-project-proposals/