Climate Crisis no Excuse to Privatise Public Water, Says Water Justice Coalition
As the world marks World Water Day 2025, the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition (OWORAC) has called for urgent action to safeguard Africa’s water resources from what it describes as the twin threats of climate change and water privatisation. In a statement released on Friday, the coalition called on African governments to protect water […]
Make Big Polluters Pay Coalition Condemns US’ Withdrawal from Paris Agreement
February 4, 2025 – The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) coalition condemns the unilateral decision of the Trump administration to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement highlighting its serious implications for global climatic justice. The MBPP coalition believes this decision has undermined international cooperation and weakened the commitments aimed at reducing greenhouse […]
CAPPA Urges NASS To Increase Tobacco Control Budget To N300m
As the National Assembly continues its review of the N49.7 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill presented by President Bola Tinubu on December 18, 2024, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the Senate and House of Representatives to raise the budgetary allocation for Tobacco Control in the 2025 National Budget from the […]
Preserve Intellectual Freedom in Student Loan Scheme, CAPPA Urges FG, NELFUND Managers
…Warns Against Transforming Fund into a Discriminatory Policy The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the federal government and Trustees of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to abandon plans to restrict access of the loan to specific courses deemed “high demand” and “practical” to national development. The organisation described this […]
$5trn Debt: Pay Up, Climate Activists Tell Rich Countries At COP29 Peoples Plenary
Civil society members from across the world, including from the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP), have held a People’s Plenary themed “Pay Up, Stand Up: Finance Climate Action, Not Genocide” at the COP29 United Nations climate talks which ends Friday, 22 November 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Speaking with one voice, they shared their pain […]
Africa MBPP Backs G77, China’s Call For Climate Finance Trillions, Tech Transfer
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 18 NOV 2024: At the ongoing COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) Coalition has thrown its weight behind a demand by developing countries led by G77 and China for improved and just climate finance reparation in the trillions from developed countries, and also urgent technology transfer and […]
Show Financial Commitment to Addressing Diabetes Burden, CAPPA Tells FG, States
The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the federal government and state authorities to demonstrate financial commitment towards reducing the risk of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases. The not-for-profit, in a statement following last Thursday’s celebration of World Diabetes Day, reiterated its call for an upward review of the country’s budgetary […]
Africa MBPP Kicks As 1773 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Flood COP29 Climate Talks
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 15 NOV 2024: The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) Coalition condemns the presence of no fewer than 1773 fossil fuel lobbyists at the ongoing COP29 summit in Baku, warning that it is a barrier to climate justice for communities most affected by the climate crisis caused by the Global North and corporate […]
Africa MBPP Coalition Denounces COP29 Ramming Through of Carbon Credits Standards
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, 12 NOV 2024 – The Africa Make Big Polluters Pay (MBPP) coalition denounces Monday’s attempt by the Cop presidency to the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku Azerbaijan to adopt a consensus on standards for the creation of carbon credits under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement. The coalition notes that […]
Put an End to Mining Tragedies, CAPPA Tells FG
Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the federal government and state authorities to enforce strict monitoring and regulatory measures against illegal mining activities to prevent further avoidable tragedies across the country. The group made this known in a statement released over the weekend, in response to the recent collapse of an illegal […]
