Climate Governance and Justice

Abstract

Abstract This chapter seeks to contribute to the governance, justice, power pull, and unequal exchange discourse while exploring climate change response strategies in peripheral Africa through the lenses of power and imbalances. It reviews Africa’s efforts on mitigation, adaptation, and financing strategies in the contexts of sociotechnological and economic differentials. Governance remains central to managing climate change and mainstreaming justice globally, with the intention of reducing unequal exchanges concerning financing, mitigation, and adaptation mechanisms. Peripheral Africa has continued to bear the brunt of climate injustice and power pull from the Global North and the other core countries, despite being a minuscule emitter of carbon equivalent gases. The chapter recommends the formation of an intergovernmental panel on climate justice to make nation-states and organizations accountable for appropriate mitigation, adaptation, and financing commitments adequate for their emissions levels.