Africa Coalition Demands Major Polluters Foot the Bill as Climate Impacts Worsen

The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay coalition has issued an urgent call for concrete measures to tackle the intensifying climate crisis across the continent. They highlight how communities from Nigeria’s grasslands to Kenya’s forests are already facing extreme heat, erratic rainfall, biodiversity loss and rising sea levels. The coalition warns against treating African lands as testing grounds for experimental carbon schemes or unchecked extractivism disguised as green transitions. They single out fossil fuel companies in the Niger Delta and industrial actors in the Congo for degrading ecosystems, eroding livelihoods and shifting adaptation burdens onto local communities. In their Earth Day statement, the group demands an immediate halt to all new fossil fuel exploration, followed by a structured, time-bound phase-out of existing infrastructure. They also reject commodified nature through carbon markets and biodiversity offsets, insisting that soils, forests, wetlands and oceans be protected as living systems rather than tradable assets. The coalition stresses that meaningful climate action must rest on ecological sovereignty, community- and Indigenous-led governance, and strict accountability from major polluters. They argue that without these measures, global climate goals will remain out of reach.

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