This week was the Global Week of Climate Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future. As part of the week’s activities, we demonstrated outside Durban City Hall, demanding that Global North countries #PayUp US$5 trillion per year towards climate finance in the Global South.

We rallied in numbers, calling for G7 country leaders to pool resources and secure crucial funding for a just transition to renewable energy in Global South countries, emphasising that it is their moral responsibility.

Tell G7 finance ministers to #PayUp, fund the transition to renewables AND stop funding fossil fuels!

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The #PayUp campaign, a vast network of civil society groups worldwide, organised the demonstration as part of a larger climate finance campaign for 2024.

Africa, Asia, and Latin America bear the cost of escalating climate change through destroyed infrastructure, crop failures, lands disappearing beneath the sea, ruined livelihoods, and lost lives. Global North countries contribute the most to the crisis but are least affected by the impacts. These countries have already shown they can pull together trillions of dollars to combat a crisis, as they did during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. They can do it again for the climate crisis now.

A just transition to renewable energy needs a bold, transformative financial plan.