In June, South Africa celebrated their Youth Month and across the country, young people rallied to demand ambitious climate action and climate justice now.

350Africa.org joined Earthlife Africa and Campaign for a Just Energy Future outside the Standard Bank AGM united in our call for Africa’s biggest lender to the oil and gas industry to do more in terms of tacking the climate crisis and as a meaningful start, report on how exposed the banks lending, financing, and investment activities to climate risks.

As 350Africa.org we decided to create a Climate Change election guide in an effort to get our partners on the ground more engaged but also to start the climate conversation before the elections and hear what people thought about it and if they would sway their votes based on political parties positions on some climate related themes.

350Africa.org calls on the DBSA to develop a stand-alone fossil fuel strategy that fully excludes coal and integrates climate change strategies across their operations to meeting South Africa’s fair share of keeping warming to 1.5C as communicated by the worlds foremost collection of climate scientists.

As we head to the polls here in South Africa, which party will work on equitably transforming us from the biggest carbon polluter on the continent to a climate action taking, renewable energy superpower? And if you’re a voter who wants to support a party that really cares about taking climate action, then where should you put your X on May 8th?