By Jeff Kapembwa Africa stands at the threshold of failing to fight hunger, reface new and rundown infrastructure and rebuild economies devastated by escalating debt burden, international and local headwinds and must strive to fight head on, the climate change which is the ‘Elephant in
By Jeff Kapembwa The Green Climate Fund urges debt-ridden African countries to look to capital markets or alternatively use Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to insulate themselves from climate change and raise resources to invest in their fledgling economies. Africa is estimated to lose an average of
By Gloria Siwisha The Eastern Province Jurisdictional Sustainable Landscape Programme (EPJ-SLP), a follow-up initiative to the recently concluded ZIFLP, has commenced the process of establishing an additional 200 Farmer Field Schools (FFS), in Eastern Province. This action would subsequently increase the number of FFSs in
By Annie Mulenga As Zambia continues to experience the devastating effects of climate change evidenced by the 2023/2024 farming season drought, persistent load shedding, and recurring floods in Lusaka, it becomes increasingly clear that human behaviour plays a significant role in exacerbating these challenges. Deforestation
By Jeff Kapembwa South Africa, the current chair of the G-20 group of rich countries has noted with concern the gravity of climate-induced damage to the planet and that complacency will be more costly to redress the costs of recovery and rebuilding. Cyril Ramaphosa notes with
By Jeff Kapembwa The Climate change impasse buffeting Zambia is not insurmountable, we can fight the calamite but the journey requires determination, passion and courage, and with focus, progressively, we can get there, President Hakainde Hichilema has noted. Zambia has had its fair share of
By Jeff Kapembwa The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance-PACA, a coalition of over 1,000 campaigners for climate and environmental justice issues and other players, met in Kenya with focus on lasting solutions to actions to redress Africa's fate. The players called for streamlined financial support
By Jeff Kapembwa The Southern African region should diversify and exploit the untapped and abundant renewable energy resources to meet the increasing need for natural resources, deprived to more than 600 million people on the continent, and fight poverty and other social ills, the United
By Jeff Kapembwa AFRICA’s vulnerability go the climate change crisis has heightened following revelations that while the continent is compelled to service its public debt to rich nations, the latter owes the continent over US$36 trillion in unpaid climate financing, an Action Aid report says.
By Jeff Kapembwa Africa needs an estimated US$15 billion annually to ‘detoxicate’ the continent as climate change ravages the continent, the African Union has said. Africa, despite its low level of Green House Gases, emission-estimated at 4 degrees Celsius has fallen prey to the uncouth
