Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
#XiyeBastida, the 20-year-old Mexican activist and Dr. Stella Nyambura Mbau, whose work in Sub Saharan Africa fosters climate resilience, give firsthand testimony of the 'Loss and Damage' that has finally been included in the COP agenda. With hosts Raya Salter and Jem Bendell, they focus attention on the need for #ClimateJustice.
While delegates give speeches, and industries parade their wares at the side shows of #COP27, people in countries around the world who have contributed the least to the climate crisis, continue to suffer. This year, the drought in East Africa severed food supply for 22 million people, while record monsoons in Pakistan took 1,500 lives and uprooted 33 million people. Mudslides inundated villages in Central America, killing dozens and displacing 560,000 people.
Expectations are not high, but the US is signaling a willingness to discuss the issue more seriously.
As movements worldwide focus on climate justice, there is an increasing need for climate activism to focus on solidarity among and with those most affected in the global South.
Editor, Glenn Goodwin
Music, At the Bazaar by David Fesliyan
For more on Dr. Nyambura Mbau:
resilience.org/resilience-author/stella-nyambura-mbau-phd
For more on Xiye Bastida:
xiyebeara.com
For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
#XiyeBastida, the 20-year-old Mexican activist and Dr. Stella Nyambura Mbau, whose work in Sub Saharan Africa fosters climate resilience, give firsthand testimony of the 'Loss and Damage' that has finally been included in the COP agenda. With hosts Raya Salter and Jem Bendell, they focus attention on the need for #ClimateJustice.
While delegates give speeches, and industries parade their wares at the side shows of #COP27, people in countries around the world who have contributed the least to the climate crisis, continue to suffer. This year, the drought in East Africa severed food supply for 22 million people, while record monsoons in Pakistan took 1,500 lives and uprooted 33 million people. Mudslides inundated villages in Central America, killing dozens and displacing 560,000 people.
Expectations are not high, but the US is signaling a willingness to discuss the issue more seriously.
As movements worldwide focus on climate justice, there is an increasing need for climate activism to focus on solidarity among and with those most affected in the global South.
Editor, Glenn Goodwin
Music, At the Bazaar by David Fesliyan
For more on Dr. Nyambura Mbau:
resilience.org/resilience-author/stella-nyambura-mbau-phd
For more on Xiye Bastida:
xiyebeara.com
For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
