African Futures Lab advances climate justice as reparations, confronting colonial legacies, extractivism, and false solutions, while promoting feminist, community-led alternatives through global advocacy, research, and movement-building across Africa and the diaspora.
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This peer-reviewed research article calls for a Pan-African climate reparations research and policy agenda grounded in historical responsibility, structural justice, and African leadership.
Our delegation attended COP 30 with a clear message: Africa's demand for climate reparations is not charity - it is a legal, moral, and political obligation owed by those most responsible for the …
A COP 30 publication. Africa's quest for climate finance is inseparable from the continent`s broader demands for economic, racial, and gender justice. It must be pursued as a project of structural …
A timely conversation as the momentum grown in the climate justice sphere and in the movement for reparations for colonial harms, enslavement and genocide of Indigenous peoples.
This webinar was organized by African Union ECOSOCC, African Futures Lab and Biophilic Conversations
Op-ed on the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal obligations of states in addressing the climate crisis.
Tribune libre : L'avis consultatif de la CIJ et l'urgence des obligations des États face à la crise climatique
The two-day conference brought together experts from across Africa and the Caribbean to advance the fight for reparations for historical harms rooted in slavery, colonialism, and environmental …
Analysis of the verdict in Saul Lliuya vs RWE, a major step forward in climate litigation and corporate accountability. The ruling sets a historic precedent by linking emissions from a German utility …
As part of the Movement of Movements, African Futures Lab proudly supports PowerShift Africa's policy brief: "Why Carbon Markets Are a Dangerous Distraction for Africa.
African Futures Lab joined organizers and thinkers at the 4th Africa Movement Building Space to confront extractivism and climate injustice.
Blog article by Dr. Patrick Toussaint, African Futures Lab Research and Policy Advisor
Climate Reparations Conference at The University of Montréal
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