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LatestClimate Justice8 min

Climate Justice Beyond Carbon

Why gender, age, disability, class and place must shape climate policy in Africa

Carbon accounting tells us what is warming the planet. It tells us almost nothing about who is harmed, in what order, and with what recourse. African climate policy needs both ledgers.

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Editorial4 min

The Climate Justice Lens

An introduction to Climate Justice Lens — a regular reading of climate policy, law and finance in Africa, organised around a single stubborn question: who carries the cost?

30 July 2026

Children's Rights7 min

A Child-Centred Climate Agenda

Children appear in climate policy almost exclusively as a category of vulnerability. The shift required is from being described in the document to holding standing in the process.

24 June 2026

ESG and Enterprise7 min

ESG Beyond Compliance

Making sustainability work for African SMEs

ESG frameworks were built for listed multinationals and handed down to firms of twenty people. The result is a compliance burden that produces paperwork rather than performance.

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ESG and Enterprise7 min

Inclusive Green Entrepreneurship and ESG Pathways

The green economy in Southern Africa has no shortage of entrepreneurs. It has a shortage of pathways — the sequenced, navigable routes between an idea and a viable enterprise.

21 April 2026

ESG and Enterprise6 min

Green Entrepreneurship

Adaptation is usually costed as a burden. Much of it is demand — for services that do not yet have suppliers, in markets that do not yet have firms.

17 March 2026

Governance7 min

Customary Governance, Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Resilience

Adaptation plans fail less often on technical grounds than on institutional ones. Where the local authority delivering a measure is not regarded as legitimate, the measure does not hold.

10 February 2026

Resilience6 min

Water Security Is Climate Security

Reimagining urban and rural resilience through green infrastructure

For most communities, climate change is not experienced as temperature. It is experienced as water — too little, too much, at the wrong time, of the wrong quality.

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Climate Finance7 min

Beyond Greenwashing

Greenwashing is usually treated as a communications offence. It is better understood as a verification failure — and verification failures are fixable.

25 November 2025

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