SOUTH AFRICA: Global day of climate action focuses on green and just recovery

In South Africa, the Climate Justice Coalition, an alliance of South African trade unions, grassroots and community-based organisations and other CSOs, marched to the finance and energy departments at government headquarters in Pretoria, calling for a green and just recovery from the pandemic and an increase in renewable energy usage. South African activists pointed to the connections between the climate crises and other great scourges, including unemployment, poverty, gender-based violence and inequality.