Johannesburg Climate Week is a city-wide pilot programme of events led by grassroots organisations tackling our most urgent crises: climate change, energy insecurity, food and water inequity, spatial injustice, and gender-based violence.

Having run for two consecutive years, Johannesburg Climate Week has brought together activists, community leaders, students, and citizens who share ideas, ride bikes, watch screenings, and move around the city – exploring how climate change is deeply connected to social justice in South Africa.

Participants have journeyed through different areas of the city and witnessed how climate change is a threat amplifier. When the floods come, it’s those worst affected by Apartheid spatial planning that lose their homes. When the droughts come, our food and water are at risk.

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.