Africa and Climate Justice at COP27 and beyond: impacts and solutions through an interdisciplinary lens

Date: 29 March 2023

Handling Editor: Dr Stephen Blenkinsop

Editorial decision: Request revision. The Handling Editor requested revisions; the article has been returned to the authors to make this revision with the following additional comments:

Page 5, change 100 thousand to 100,000

Page 6, Climate justice is also incorporated in terms of adaptation to climate change frameworks – see Ch 1 of WGII of the Sixth Assessment Report (2022). This could be mentioned here.

Page 8, I do not see a reference to Figure 1 in the text. Perhaps this could be made in the discussion ‘Framing Climate Justice’? At the moment is seems to sit in a sub-section all of its own (‘Climate Justice at the root of impact’).

Page 9, seems to seek to redefine vulnerability, a term used widely in the literature, as ‘Simply put, we can no longer see vulnerability as those exposed to natural disasters but how the most marginalised in society are particularly vulnerable to climatic changes.’ I would suggest that vulnerability is still required as a broad definition, used in the literature to assess risk, but the point here should be greater emphasis is needed on the most marginalised groups.

Page 13, capitalise 6^th Assessment Report.

Page 14, Table 1: I wonder if something more precise could be provided for 5-6C higher. Was this information derived from the 6^th Assessment Report? If so, indicate in the caption with citation.

Page 21, In Figure 2 could you either indicate a source for this data or is this collated from a number of sources, or is this referring to funding from a particular source e.g. UN, or from a range of different funding sources?

Page 23, states that the language around climate change needs certainty but can you elaborate on the way this is not the case currently. Is it not the case that the language is more certain than the response? The subsequent paragraph suggests it is actions that need attention rather than language.

Page 26, Figure 3 is not referred to in the text – could a direct link to this be provided at a relevant point.

Date: 13 October 2022

Handling Editor: Dr Stephen Blenkinsop

This article is a preprint article and has not been peer-reviewed. It is under consideration following submission to UCL Open: Environment for open peer review.