The Africa Climate Justice Project

The Mandela Institute hosts the Africa Climate Justice Project (ACJP): A hub for research, public engagement, advocacy and advanced learning options on climate justice and climate resilient development in Africa. The ACJP brings together the MI’s traditional research focus areas on sustainability, extractives and good governance, and energy, environment, climate change and development. The ACJP’s vision is a peaceful and prosperous Africa built on inclusive political and socio-economic institutions that wisely govern the continent’s bounteous natural resource wealth for the wellbeing of Africa’s present and future generations, and an Africa transformed through investment in sustainable, climate-resilient infrastructure and context-appropriate technology.

The ACJP curates the Africa Extractives and Infrastructure Watch and the Pan-African Young Lawyers Earth Stewardship Movement.

The Africa Extractives and Infrastructure Watch is a platform to critically engage with major extractive and infrastructure investments and developments on the African continent. With projects as the focal point, the Extractives and Infrastructure Watch undertakes research on the intersections among the legal, political, economic, cultural, community and physical ecosystems driving the manifestation of projects with a view to determining impacts on the well-being of African people, social and economic inclusion, and the stewardship of natural wealth. Current projects include the Tormin and Xolobeni mineral sands projects, petroleum development in the Kavango Basin, and the Simandou mega-iron ore development in Guinea.

The Pan-African Young Lawyers Earth Stewardship Movement is intended support a movement of earth-conscious young lawyers aware of the critical contribution of the legal profession in driving climate-resilient development in Africa.

Professor Tracy-Lynn Field is the Chair for the Africa Climate Justice Project.