By Jeff Kapembwa -Zambia’s quest to strengthen its climate action through sustained reduced GreenHouse Gases (GHGs) emissions by the close of the decade, inched closer as espoused under the Green Growth Strategy. Zambia, one of the African countries tormented by the crisis and in…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia’s quest to populate climate change and its impact on the ecosystem has begun in earnest with a call to the media to assimilate the science and ‘truthfully and accurately’ join in sensitising the public on the effects of the crisis,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia and Norway signed a US$420 million financial transaction for carbon credit exchange as the country in the country’s quest to transition into renewable energy and insulate against climate change that dwarfed sector growth. A carbon credit deal, according to energy…
By Maziko Phiri, This year marks 20 years of AGRA advancing agricultural transformation across Africa. Milestones like this invite reflection. But more importantly, they challenge us to ask a deeper question: what comes next? From Zambia’s perspective, AGRA@20 is not simply about looking back…
By Jeff Kapembwa AFRICA’s food security is under-threaten and may force millions of inhabitants under acute hunger with the looming prices fertiliser-chiefly urea are focused to escalate above 70 percent by the close of the first quarter this year if the conflict between United…
By Jeff Kapembwa The lack of reliable early warning systems, bureaucracy in accessing funds and poor collaboration between affected Governments and key players are some of the challenges frustrating efforts to militating the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns affecting ecosystems and should…
By Jeff Kapembwa Climate change has extended its ‘fangs’ of damage to the Zambia’s education sector-inducing a staggering US$60 million in damage to infrastructure, disrupting learning for 5 million children, fueling concerns of a bleak future if not militated, the UN says. The United…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Eighth Meeting of the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD B8), Focusing on the operationalisation of the fund, including financial mechanisms and resource disbursement modalities, opened in Zambia, Tuesday, with a call for the continent…
By Jeff Kapembwa Haunted by recurring food loses on the continent-estimated at US$4 billion, capable of feeding 48 million African inhabitants, efforts have been stepped up to invest in the production, distribution, among other technologies to ensure food security. Food security Campaigners-Alliance for a…
The Bretton Woods institution seeks review of the expiry of its ambitious climate action plan intended to support the “Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development” (GRID) seeking to eradicate poverty and promote shared prosperity for developing and Least Developed Countries with a sustainability lens. The…
