A network of lawyers and business leaders accelerating climate actions needed to achieve a just transition in Africa.
Africa must pursue socio-economic development within the context of a warming planet, and this presents both a challenge and an opportunity.
The collaborative efforts of lawyers and other leaders will help accelerate the successful transition to a low carbon and climate resilient future by supporting actions needed to achieve Africa's socio-economic development goals at local, national and regional levels, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Due to their positions as legal experts, custodians of ethics and trusted business advisors, lawyers are uniquely placed to support, assist and advice parties seeking to achieve their transition goals. Their impact is amplified when they ally with like-minded leaders from other professions.
Our initiative has already recruited more than 50 participants spanning a variety of sectors (private, public and non-profit), and more are joining weekly.
The Village supports the work of The Chancery Lane Project a UK non-profit that drafts climate-conscious clauses for use in contracts, empowering organizations to embark on a transformative path towards achieving net-zero emissions.
Our mission is to build a coordinated Africa focused effort by lawyers and other professionals to accelerate the achievement of climate and Sustainable Development Goals.
The Village collaborates with stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, local communities, and governments, to accelerate the actions needed to achieve economic and social developments goals in support of the Paris Agreement.
The Village connects and aligns with, and amplifies initiatives that share this vision.
We support each other through knowledge sharing, challenge and inspiration.
We build consensus on what and how organisations should embed sustainability best practices.
We curate practical toolkits, primers & knowledge pieces by leveraging our diverse know-how.
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Participants work together to identify all governance, strategic and management areas that will enable organisation to correctly align itself to a net zero focus.
This Tribe focuses on an organisation's supply chain mapping out the scope 3 ecosystem. The Tribe will create a road map for getting the emissions data and alignment that corporations need to legitimise their net zero goals.
This Tribes will map out the deal making ecosystem with a view to enriching the repository of climate knowledge pieces available for use in investments.
This Tribe focuses on the insurance sector, mapping out this key ecosystem with a view to fleshing out the key issues and risk areas that organisations need to pursue to underwrite their net zero goals.
The built sector is a critical sector and understanding and managing embodied emissions (in construction, operationalisation or demolition) will be critical part of the transition to a net zero world.
This Tribe offers support to local and national governments in building a clear picture of climate risks and opportunities. This means informing policy and measures to promote climate action and overcome barriers to change.
Climate represents an added stressor to women and disproportionatly impacts them. Young people are valuable contributors to climate action catalysing change, innovation and entrepreneurship.
