Oilwatch Africa said the continent is suffocating with the COVID-19 pandemic and fossil fuels through mining and combustion, as the pandemic “has exposed the entire ‘global chain of fossil fuels’, now better described as a chain of devaluation. “
Oilwatch noted that “as corporations are taking unprecedented blows to their balance sheets, slashing dividend bills for shareholders and racking up debt to maintain a facade of stability, the petrochemical sector, hailed by industry leaders as a panacea for Long-term expansion has been exposed during its unsustainable economic outlook.
“We, who have suffered the devaluation of our lives and our customers through fossil fuels – in the sites of extraction, structure and operation of pipelines, refining, shipping, combustion, removal and in the regions of maximum climatic vulnerability of the world. – welcomes the economic pain felt by investors who have ignored our requests for caution and divestment.
“We told you; Would nature’s legislation possibly create accounts that you have no idea when, where, and how much pain you’ll feel in the Global North, not just us in Africa?
“In summary, as Oilwatch Africa attendees realize that the pandemic can be partially contained through closed closures, the unfolding climate disaster will precipitate a devastating reversal on the continent and on land.
“There is an urgent need for Africa to view the fossil fuel sector with skepticism, hostility and a willingness to announce its closure.
“Regressive economies, deepening inequalities, and irresponsible exploitation of our other people and our environment will have to end decisively now, before further damage is done.”
These were part of an Oilwatch Africa virtual annual general meeting held on Monday on the topic We Can’t Breathe: Africa is choking on COVID and fossil flames.
AGA brought together 32 participants from 11 African countries, plus Nigeria, Togo, Swaziland, Mozambique, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, DRC, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire, and Zimbabwe.
Observations
The assembly studied the effects of fossil fuels on the continent, punctuated by the recent oil spill off the coast of Mauritius via a Japanese ship, and noted that the global economy is as chaotic as the global political ecology.
Participants also agreed that “although citizens are constrained by the shutdown, fossil fuel corporations have been active at crime scenes, racking up additional ecological damage in their pursuit of profit, to reinforce shareholder confidence in a at which point they are also required to list their assets across tens of billions of dollars, according to accounting standards.
They added that extractive pathways are ingrained as a mechanism of colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal plunder and the deepening of Africa’s overall dependence on “unequal ecological exchange” with primary economic powers.
“We want to replace the confidence of our leaders in reactivating the commodity market, adding fossil fuels, because we insist that we no longer have those export earnings, especially if they are. considered as a means of recovery from COVID-19.
“That trust has failed in Africa that has lived or worked in mining areas.
“There is an urgent need for a united Africa with data to combat the risk of fossil fuel extraction in Africa.
“We want to calculate the huge ‘ecological debt’ that fossil fuel manufacturers owe us, adding multinational companies operating in Africa.
Only in the case of South Africa, as the third most carbon intensive country in the world in line with the capita economy (behind Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic), the two record-breaking cyclones and a rain bomb caused damage. unprecedented in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in March and May. 2019 as well as its own KwaZulu-Natal seafront around Durban. “
Petitions
At the end of Oilwatch Africa’s one-day virtual AGM, participants demanded, among other things, that African governments not recognize the scammers of a “global price chain” for oil, but devaluation. global life due to fossil fuel deficiency;
Seeking a transition away from fossil fuels and equitably getting rid of coal, oil and fuel extraction will be a core component of African nations’ economic recovery plan after the COVID-19 pandemic;
Africans announce their duty for bloodshed, death and ecocide in Africa, especially due to deepening climate chaos;
The effect of COVID-19 on the fitness and livelihoods of countries already affected by fossil fuel exploitation should be assessed. For example, when other people close to refineries or oil wells suffer from asthma, they are also more vulnerable to COVID-19;
African governments deserve to identify climate-resilient recovery models to protect communities, prevent destructive extraction and agroecology through their leading visionary civil society organizations;
The COVID-19 pandemic should not be used as a criterion for not being workers, oppressing citizens or victimizing activists in Africa;
African governments deserve Appendix Zero, identifying and encouraging countries, nations, subnational spaces, localities and territories that keep fossil fuels in the soil.
“We want to put pressure on the North to pay off its climate debt; one facet of this is our societies’ willingness to leave fossil fuels underground,” they added.
Signatories
The signers of the communiqué come with Africa Coal Network; JVE, Ivory Coast; Oilwatch Ghana; Friends of Lake Turkana, Kenya; Justiça Ambiental, Mozambique; Nigeria Green Marine; Mother Earth Health Foundation, Nigeria.
Others include the Women’s Development Resource Centre in Kabetkache, Nigeria; We people, Nigeria; Peace Point Development Foundation, Nigeria; Policy Alert, Nigeria; Leke Development Foundation, Nigeria; Earthlife Africa, South Africa; Environmental Alliance of the Southern Community of Durban, South Africa; Oil in Africa, Swaziland.
There are also Les Amis de la Terre/Oilwatch, Togo; Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Uganda, and National Association of Professional Environmentalists, Uganda.
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