Background
Co-Creating a Regenerative Africa, an initiative that led to the creation of this Regenerative Africa Library, is a bold response to three momentous crises facing Africa: impending climate cataclysm, catastrophic biodiversity loss, and the risks of unjustly leaving behind vulnerable individuals and communities in the transition to low-carbon economies and societies.
The initiative constantly engages the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) that address these crises: Clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7), Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG 9), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), Climate Action (SDG 13), Life below water (SDG 14), and Life on land (SDG 15).
However, our planetary resources are so greatly diminished that we need to move beyond sustainability to regeneration, to go beyond just sustaining current conditions and instead actively restore and revitalize the ecosystems, species, communities, and ways-of-being that are essential for our planet’s future. Our focus is not just on sustainability but also on regeneration.
The Regenerative Africa Library is a virtual library that serves as a repository and learning centre for literary works such as articles, essays, poems, and short stories on catastrophic biodiversity loss, impending climate cataclysm, and the just transition to low-carbon economies — focused on Africa. The published materials are available open access (OA) to everyone with the goal of providing people, especially Africans, with access to relevant content that provides deep insight into the current state of the continent, reveals challenges, and also offers possible solutions – all while inspiring, engaging, and mobilizing millions.
The Regenerative Africa Library is an all-inclusive project that gives everyone the opportunity to contribute to the sharing of knowledge about Africa and Africans.
Objectives
The objectives of the Regenerative Africa Library are to:
● Build knowledge and understanding of African young people and adults on the climate, biodiversity loss, and unjust transition crises that profoundly affect lives and livelihoods in Africa; on associated United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs); and on related topics.
● Reorient and transform the minds and hearts of African young people and adults in ways that bring impactful transformations of African individuals, communities, societies, and countries – supporting us in rising up to address the climate, biodiversity, and unjust transition crises.
● Build consciousness of Africans to move beyond sustainability to regeneration.
Management Committee Members
Organizational Partners
The Regenerative Africa Library is a project of the Co-Creating a Regenerative Africa initiative, which was founded through a partnership between several organizations. Those listed below manage the Regenerative Africa Library.
