COP31: Africa's 18m workers sound alarm, demand climate justice, green jobs, billions in funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "According to ITUC-Africa, investments in renewable energy and critical minerals must create decent jobs, promote local manufacturing, strengthen technical skills and guarantee strong environmental and labour protections.
60% : "It warned against reproducing the continent's traditional extractive economic model under the banner of green energy.
58% : "In another major demand, the labour organisation called for Africa to use the global shift towards renewable energy as an opportunity to accelerate industrialisation rather than remain a supplier of unprocessed raw materials.
46% : The Africa Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), representing workers in 52 African countries, has called on African governments, developed nations, international financial institutions and other climate-transition partners to put workers and communities at the centre of climate policies.
46% : In its five-point demands ahead of COP31, organisation's General Secretary, Akhator Joel Odigie, insisted that the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy must not come at the expense of workers' livelihoods, economic security and fundamental labour rights.
44% : Africa's 18 million organised workers have sounded a strong warning ahead of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), demanding climate justice, decent jobs, affordable energy and billions of dollars in climate financing to ensure that the continent does not bear the burden of the global energy transition.
26% : "It called for debt relief, progressive taxation, windfall taxes on excessive profits in the extractive sector and stronger action against tax avoidance and illicit financial flows to mobilise resources for climate action and public services.

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