Catherine Twongyeirwe
@Cathytp2
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Executive Director and Co-founder at Women on Environment Mission(WEM) Uganda
Uganda
Joined February 2024
🚨 End Corporate Capture! We demand an end to corporate influence in climate policy-making and call for real accountability. 🌍 Put people, planet, and justice not profit at the center of all climate decisions. #COP30 #ClimateJustice #EndCorporateCapture #FeministClimateAction
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Empowering communities for a more resilient future, focusing on climate, social, and environmental justice. We're partnering with @NatureTalk_A to support self-help groups, promoting sustainable agriculture among youth and women. #REPowerAfrika, #CommunityEmpowerment #Livelihood
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☀️Creating jobs & powering homes with clean energy 💪Our partners under @IGENEastAfrica are training communities to take up solar use & become clean energy entrepreneurs. ⛺️They are supported by a clean energy hub set up by @IGENEastAfrica. Bravo to them!
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Last week, with support from partners, the hosts of the @IGENEastAfrica clean energy hub in Kikuube district trained youth in solar installation, repair and maintenance. This training will drive job creation, environmental conservation and clean energy adoption.
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A race against time in Terego, Uganda. Rampant illegal charcoal burning is devouring the landscape, pushing communities to the brink. As the last trees fall for charcoal, the soil erodes and the rains fail. The consequence? The people will soon be starving. Deforestation not only
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Today we wrote to the speaker of parliament @AnitahAmong & the prime minister of Uga @RobinahNabbanja to join efforts in saving 150 acres of #Kitubulu forest that have been allocated to Tian Tang group for development. We want this matter investigated asap! #SaveKitubuluForest.
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French court penalizes TotalEnergies for deceptive greenwashing claims. This is a win for climate justice & a warning to fossil fuel companies. 💚 No more greenwashing. 🛑 Communities & ecosystems must come before profit. #ClimateJustice # #No2Greenwashing #StopEACOP
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Why is TotalEnergies self-financing 86% of #EACOP instead of the planned 60:40 debt-to-equity ratio? Because over 40 banks & 30 insurance firms refused to touch it. Download the paper. See link 👇#StopEACOP! https://t.co/e3vvpmkPPB
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In #Uganda, the Oil Refinery Residents Association (ORRA) are committed to ensuring that oil & gas and other business operations respect #HumanRights, biodiversity and the dignity of communities who have been negatively affected 🎞️ https://t.co/ycwxjbOoZS
@RightsinDevt @EDLC_org
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As Uganda moves forward with its #ClimateAdaptationPlan, we’re calling for 30% of climate finance to be set aside for women, girls, and vulnerable communities, the people who feel the impact of climate change most deeply. It’s women who walk farther for water when droughts hit,
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🚨Accepted motion alert! During @IUCN Congress, Motion 140 on protecting the Congo Basin forests, which AFIEGO co-sponsored, was adopted. This important step strengthens efforts to conserve the Congo Basin including forests in Uganda’s Albertine Graben from destruction.
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Catholic environmentalist blasts massive African pipeline as ‘unacceptable gamble’
cruxnow.com
“In case of a leakage along that pipeline, we are going to lose everything as Kenya, as Africa, as a continent,” said Flavian Wanzala.
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🌍Climate finance shouldn't be a debt trap. 2/3 of climate funds to the Global South come as loans, not aid. Rich countries profit while vulnerable nations sink deeper into debt. #Debtcancellation #GrantsNotLoans #ClimateJustice @Oxfam @CAREClimate @awdf01
oxfam.org
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Who says that oil activities have not impacted Murchison Falls Wildlife, yet newly constructed roads for transporting oil equipments in the park are causing a lot of traffic, disrupting wildlife, particularly, elephants that are sensitive to noise. Protect wildlife in MFNP
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Today young female journalists were able to understand the impacts of climate change, how to tell impactful climate stories. They delved into AI tools like Datasource, and learnt from the experiences and expertise of young women leading climate innovation in Uganda.
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We strongly condemn the ongoing injustices targeting the youth climate activists in Uganda. @JudiciaryUG why deny innocent activists bail? We won’t surrender until EACOP injustices stop.
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Akmadah’s thriving farm was valued as bare land. When he protested, they accused him of sabotage. Since when is demanding fairness ‘disrupting development’?
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