In Europe, Fridays for Future are striking for action on the climate. Sweden’s Greta Thunberg and Germany’s Luisa Neubauer have achieved cult status. These activists are now on international stages negotiating with business and politics about how much change is needed, how quickly and who will pay for it.

EACOP pipeline through East Africa

Who profits from the new oil?

Activists want to stop the pipeline. Uganda’s president and TotalEnergies promise jobs and an upswing for the country. But who really benefits? An investigative analysis of big promises.

A few thousand kilometres further south, the 1.5-degree temperature increase has already been exceeded. Cities are sinking, land is drying out, coasts are slipping away and certain crops simply won’t grow where they have for millennia: this is already the reality in many African countries. Young women in Africa are particularly affected by the consequences of the climate crisis. Although they engage in climate activism, they are hardly ever invited to international negotiating tables. Or if they are, they’re cut out of the picture afterwards, like Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.

World’s Longest Heated Pipeline

Oil wells in the national park

Total will soon produce oil in Uganda in areas inhabited by elephants and giraffes. And that may be just the beginning. Here is our visual investigation.

Our year-long project is dedicated to women fighting the climate crisis in African countries. Not only are their means of protest often different, we can also learn from their solutions. Over the next few months, you’ll find regular new portraits, interviews, interactive visualisations of climate impacts, and on-the-ground reports here.

Consequences of Climate Change for Africa

Who is damaging the climate most - and who suffers the consequences

In Germany, the consequences of the climate change are more of a abstract nature. On the African continent, it occures otherwise – even though the continent contributes less to the climate change than others

Confronting catastrophe

"In the end, if we do nothing, it will cost us everything"

In times of flood, they do not come to school; in times of drought, they are more affected by violence: Women bear the biggest burden of the climate crisis. Eight of them are fighting climate change in Uganda - where rebellion is unwelcome.

Oil in the National Park

What Total's oil production means for the people of Uganda

Oil production is about to start in Uganda. In the middle of a national park. To bring the oil to the world market, a 1400-kilometre pipeline is being built through East Africa. And this in a country that is already severely affected by climate change.

Unbelievably committed

In Europe, Fridays for Future fights against climate change. In many African countries the climate change is already noticeable. African activists are seldom heard.

Fossil fuel

Is Africa’s coal boom just getting started?

Coal is on the rise in Africa. This is devastating news for climate protection. However, there are alternatives, and things could work out very differently.