Twelve resolutions

Adopted by delegates from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo at the close of the West Africa Climate Justice Roundtable in Abuja, 15 July 2026.

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Organise

  1. Strengthen the movement

    Strengthen the West African Climate Justice Movement as a permanent, people-centred platform for regional solidarity, collective organising, coordinated advocacy, knowledge sharing, research and action, while setting a common agenda for ECOWAS, the African Union and Global South movements.

  2. Use what the region already has

    Map, strengthen and leverage existing movements, initiatives, networks and people's knowledge across the region, including platforms such as the World Social Forum, the Niger Delta Climate Change Platform and African Women Climate Justice, to amplify collective advocacy and engage governments and regional institutions.

  3. Organise across languages

    Promote cultural diversity by treating Africa's linguistic diversity as an opportunity to deepen climate consciousness, strengthen cross-border solidarity and enable community expression, alongside cultural values and practices that reduce vulnerability.

Demand

  1. Rights-based climate governance

    Advocate for governance that integrates climate justice, human rights, gender equality, equity, sustainability and intergenerational justice into national and regional policy, through inclusive, transparent and participatory decision-making.

  2. A just energy transition

    Accelerate community-centred renewable energy, support locally owned clean energy solutions, and phase out fossil fuel expansion and environmentally destructive extractive activity.

  3. International accountability

    Demand adequate grant-based climate finance, technology transfer, capacity strengthening, effective implementation of the Loss and Damage Fund, and direct support for frontline and climate-affected communities.

  4. Reject false solutions

    Reject false climate solutions, including harmful carbon markets, while advancing biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, food sovereignty, agroecology and people-centred, nature-positive development.

  5. Environmental governance with teeth

    Ensure transparency, accountability, the polluter pays principle, Free, Prior and Informed Consent, equitable benefit-sharing, and the effective enforcement of environmental laws and safeguards.

Defend

  1. Protect civic space and defenders

    Protect environmental defenders and guarantee the meaningful participation and leadership of Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, local communities, persons with disabilities and civil society in climate decision-making at all levels.

  2. Rotational leadership, and the next generation

    Establish a rotational leadership structure and invest in Africa's youthful population, research, innovation and Indigenous knowledge systems, strengthening evidence-based advocacy and locally led climate solutions.

  3. Build resilient communities

    Support community-led adaptation, renewable energy, sustainable livelihoods, ecosystem restoration and coordinated regional advocacy in regional and global climate processes, including the UNFCCC.

  1. Plant, every year, together

    Institutionalise an annual tree-planting campaign across West Africa as a symbol of solidarity, ecological restoration, climate resilience and community participation.

These are condensed from the communiqué. Read it in full, including the preamble and the observations that produced the resolutions.

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