Cape Town
Climate Week
A week of city-wide, grassroots climate action
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?
For five consecutive years, Cape Town Climate Week has been a city-wide celebration of the grassroots solutions that already exist to our most urgent crises: climate change, spatial injustice, food and water insecurity, a broken energy system, migration and gender injustice.
Rather than regular boardroom talks or workshops; activists, community leaders, students, and citizens have come together to take practical action while exploring how climate change, and the need to build climate resilience, is deeply connected to social justice in South Africa.
Tapping into South Africa’s history of change catalysed by grassroots action, participants have journeyed through different areas of the city and witnessed how climate change is a threat amplifier to existing social ills, and what can be done to take action.
Citizens, and the youth, can’t wait for governments to waste time at conferences and talk shops – we can and should be bringing adaptation and resilience to our own communities, now.
WHAT IS THE AIM?
Sometimes, these problems feel too big to tackle. But, by learning about alternative forms of transport, housing, urban planning, energy systems, food growing, water resilience and gender-inclusive policy, overwhelm can be turned into collective grassroots action.
That’s why we always aim to create a sense of curious, active citizenry and prove that there are many ways to care for our planet, communities, and generations to come.
CLIMATE WEEK THEMES
ENERGY JUSTICE | WATER JUSTICE | FOOD JUSTICE | SPATIAL JUSTICE | GENDER & MIGRATION JUSTICE | GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
By exploring the 6 thematic areas, Cape Town Climate Week 2026 aimed to promote dialogue, collaboration, fun, and dynamic action towards building a sustainable and just future in South Africa. This was done through workshops, teach-ins, tours, screenings, and gatherings across the city.
READ ABOUT PAST CAPE TOWN CLIMATE WEEKS
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