{"id":3290,"date":"2020-11-02T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:19:02","slug":"african-teens-on-world-stage-demand-action-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/african-teens-on-world-stage-demand-action-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"African Teens on World Stage Demand Action on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3291 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-200x90.jpg 200w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-400x180.jpg 400w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-600x270.jpg 600w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate-800x360.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has at least two African partners stepping up on the global stage and telling world leaders to \u201cwake up\u201d and recognize the dangers to women and girls of climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a speech broadcast as part of the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture, Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate tied climate change to poverty, hunger, disease, conflict and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSee the danger we are in,\u201d Nakate urged the leaders at the Tutu peace lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lecture is given every year to coincide with the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner\u2019s birthday. Tutu turned 89 on October 7. The prerecorded speeches, not given in person this year because of the pandemic, called for \u201cclimate justice globally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nakate\u2019s speech focused on the African continent, which contributes the least to climate change but stands to suffer its effects the most.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cClimate change is a nightmare that affects every sector of our lives,\u201d she said. \u201cHow can we eradicate poverty without looking at this crisis? How can we achieve zero hunger if climate change is leaving millions of people with nothing to eat? We are going to see disaster after disaster, challenge after challenge, suffering after suffering &#8230; if nothing is done about this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLeave your comfort zones and see the danger we are in and do something about it. This is a matter of life and death,\u201d she called out the world leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Photo: Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate (left) CC BY-SA 4.0 and South African climate activist Ayakha Melithafa (right) at DAVOS World Economic Forum in 2020. CC BY 3.0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/the-world\/africa\/3915-african-teens-on-world-stage-demand-action-on-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">InDepth News<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (IDN) \u2013 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has at least two African partners stepping up on the global stage and telling world leaders to \u201cwake up\u201d and recognize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,28],"tags":[171,272,289],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justiceandpeace","category-latest-news","tag-jpic","tag-justice-peace","tag-justice-and-peace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Vanessa-Nakate.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}