By Gillian Wilson | Communications Director, IDEX
SDCEA’s work has focused on the dissemination of information concerning people’s environmental rights as well as the collection of research in order to identify the impacts of climate change.
• SDCEA conducted Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and held a community meeting (attended by 400 people) on the negative health impacts of the proposed expansion of a landfill in a highly populated area.
• Over 800 people participated in SDCEA’s one-day Climate Change and Poverty Hearing that focused on how climate change is affecting people’s livelihoods. The participants delivered testimonies on the devastating effects that they have been experiencing.
• 60 community members became volunteers to highlight the poor and squalid conditions of the communities.
• Strategic development activities are focused on how youth can become engaged in the process.
The workshops, community meetings, protests and candlelight vigils have helped to raise awareness about people’s environmental rights; ways in which they can get involved to ensure that industries adhere to regulations; and to understand the effects of climate change and how this could spell disaster for the low lying coastal towns of Durban, and the continent of Africa.
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