Pan African Climate Justice Alliance: Building on Enduring Climate Justice Movement

Publication: The Daily Campus, , University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Thomas J. Dodd Center hosted a lecture about climate change. Mithika Mwenda, executive director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance was the speaker. File Image/The Daily Campus.

Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on poor communities, especially those along the African coast, said Mithika Mwenda, executive director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance , at a lecture Monday afternoon.

In his lecture, “Building an Enduring Climate Justice Movement: Lessons from Pan African Climate Justice Alliance” at the Thomas J. Dodd Center, Mwenda said climate change is a broad, issue that affects everyone, and all of us have a role to play in addressing it.

Mwenda spoke on climate justice, which PACJA defines as “just response to climate change in a manner which accords stronger voice to...