WikiIndaba conference 2021/Program/Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement: The Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant
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Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement: The Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant | ||
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| Speakers : Lukas Mezger | Time block: Saturday 6 November 2021 | Start : 13:15 | |
| Location : Room D | Duration : 25 minutes | ||
| Description :
The urgency of the climate crisis is reflected in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy recommendations, which call on the entire Wikimedia Movement to “align our practices to support the environmental sustainability of our planet”. The English Wikipedia article "Climate change in Africa" underligns the relevance of climate change for Africa: "Climate change in Africa is an increasingly serious threat for Africans as Africa is among the most vulnerable continents to climate change." So far, however, this article has only been (partly) translated in a few other languages spoken in Africa, including Arabic, French, and Hausa (the latter two as part of a project by the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development User Group). A group of Wikimedia afiliates, including Wikimedia South Africa, have recently begun implementing this recommendation, commiting themselves to reducing their carbon footprint through a variety of measures, especially around travel, in the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant. This session will explore this new initiative, especially how it takes into account the principle of climate justice, meaning that the more privileged must help carry the burden otherwise disproportionately borne by those less privileged and those living in regions prone to the harshest effects of climate change, most notably developing Wikimedia communities in Africa: "[These a]ffiliates [...] shall only have limited responsibilities [to reduce their carbon footprint], and shall receive support from other affiliates to meet them." The session will close with a call on African Wikimedia affilates to co-sign the Covenant. |
Themes : Governance & Strategy | ||
| Tags : Environment, Sustainability, Wikimedia Affiliates, African Community | |||
| Notes : #WikiIndaba2021_sustainabilitycovenant | |||