Khulekani Sizwe Magwaza, an LWF council member from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa:
“I work for climate justice because I’m vulnerable to climate change. My family, my friends, my community, my church is vulnerable to climate change. I want to tell the stories, of how we are vulnerable, of how climate change has affected my community. And climate justice has everything to do with social justice.
At this COP I’m expecting many different things. Reading what is at stake for the negotiations, I am expecting serious decisions on article six of the Paris agreement. But I am also expecting some consideration of human rights, particularly on participation. Human rights must be considered, and we must see participation from civil society organizations, from the public community. But also gender as well as intergenerational equity need to be considered carefully. We need action to be scaled up.”