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Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) will be participating in the upcoming Africa Climate Week (ACW), which will take place from September 4 to September 8, 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya. ACW 2023 will be held alongside the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) and hosted by the government of Kenya.
The ACW is an annual event that brings together leaders from governments, international organisations, and civil society organisations to explore ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to the mounting fallout from the climate crisis.
ACW 2023 is organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank, with the support of regional partners: African Union (AU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).
TJNA’s Policy Officer, Tax and Natural Resource Governance, Mukupa Nsenduluka, will participate in two panel discussions at the ACW and Summit.
- The first panel, Gender Day Pre-session of the ACW and ACS, convened by the Africa Women and Gender Constituency on 3rd September 2023 from 12:00 -12:40 PM EAT. The panel is titled, ‘Exploring linkages between extractives, gender, climate, and tax justice,’ drawing from a new brief Mukupa co-authored to be launched at the event.
- The second-panel discussion titled, ‘Reimagining economies for climate justice’ co-organized by TJNA, the Africa Women and Gender Constituency, Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice, Akina Mama wa Afrika and FEMNET will be on 7th September 2023 at 14:00 - 15:00 PM EAT, Lenana Hall, Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), Nairobi, Kenya.
The initial session will bring together African women engaged in macroeconomic policies, natural resource governance, and climate finance to establish the nature, status, and relationship between global policies, ideologies, and models with local realities. It will provide a theoretical framework and policy recommendations to create an enabling environment at the global and regional levels for economic and climate justice.
The second session will highlight the interactions between economic and climate policy with regional specificity and a feminist lens and provide recommendations and proposals to support African leadership in driving a “reimagining” of the global economy and its regional manifestations. TJNA will specifically make an intervention on the relevance of the “5Rs” of tax justice within the context of the climate crisis to economies characterised by high levels of resource extraction.
For more details about our participation, please contact mnsenduluka@taxjusticeafrica.net