Pre-COP31 Online Indaba - 5 November 2026

As Africa is facing growing impacts from climate change, faith communities have an important role to play in calling for climate justice, meaningful action, and protection for vulnerable communities.

You are invited to join SAFCEI for a Pre-COP31 Online Indaba: A Moral Call for Climate Justice, bringing together faith leaders and communities from across the region ahead of COP31.

📅 5 November 2026
🕙 10:00–12:00 SAST
💻 Online via Zoom

The Indaba will explore:

• The vulnerabilities of Southern and Eastern Africa to climate change.
• The moral call for governments and COP31 negotiators to act.
• Faith perspectives on caring for creation and protecting all life.
• Local and regional efforts to adapt to climate impact.
• Practical actions faith communities can take for climate justice.
• The Africa Can’t Wait campaign and the call for action towards COP32.

The discussion will bring together faith leaders, climate advocates, and voices from across the region to reflect on the realities communities are facing and strengthen collective action for climate justice.

Speakers include:

• Gabriel Manyangadze, Food and Climate Justice Manager, SAFCEI: The Vulnerabilities of Southern and Eastern Africa to the Impacts of Climate Change
• Athena Peralta (World Council of Churches, Geneva): The urgency of action at the UNFCCC COP 31 in the face of devastating Impacts of Climate Change
• Nicholas Mndala (Gule Wamkhulu, African Spiritial Leader, Malawi): Our local efforts to adapt; a call to the negotiators to speak life
• Prof. Nokuzola Mndende (Traditional Healer, South African (iGqirha): The moral call to COP31 to value creation in all its forms: recognizing that every life matters; an ATR perspective
• Athena Peralta (World Council of Churches): The urgency of action at the UNFCCC COP 31 in the face of devastating Impacts of Climate Change
• Nicholas Mndala-Gule (Wamkhulu/African Traditional Religion): Our local efforts to adapt; a call to the negotiators to speak life
• Prof. Nokuzola Mndende (Traditional Healer, South Africa): The moral call to COP31 to value creation in all its forms: recognizing that every life matters; an ATR perspective

Join us and help ensure that the voices and lived experiences of African communities are heard in the global climate negotiations.

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LME3wNRrTCK2GwCUP4TLKA

We look forward to having you with us.