ACI Africa, Sep 10, 2025 / 07:00 am

Members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) are calling for methods that are “African, community-rooted, and just” in addressing climatic crises manifested in droughts, floods, and cyclones, among others, on the world’s second-largest continent.

In a statement read out during the Second Africa Climate Summit held at the Addis Ababa International Convention Centre in Ethiopia on Sept. 7–8, SECAM members said the climate crisis is both a moral and ecological emergency whose impact is greatly felt in Africa.

“Africa bears disproportionate impacts — droughts, cyclones, floods, desertification — despite contributing least to global emissions,” Africa’s Catholic bishops said in their statement for the event organ

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