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
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia inched closer to plugging the recurring climatic change effects on its landscape and the people after President Hakainde Hichilema assented to the Bill into law last year. The Green Economy and Climate Change Act, 2024, assented to on 18 December last
By Jeff Kapembwa Stakeholders in the water sector in Zambia are reviewing the law to counter climate change effects, including a drought that ravaged the Southern country’s infrastructure and agriculture production last season, leaving about 20 million people food insecure. Stakeholders in water development and
By Helen Witti The Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) says government is losing US$159million every farming season due to fall armyworm attack and climate change. “The monetary loss in the country per year according to CABI is estimated at US $159 million. As
By Josiah Mpofu Chief Chipepo of Chirundu district in Southern province has appealed to government to quickly enforce stringent laws and policies that will prevent charcoal burning in the country. Speaking during the launch of the Transhumance intervention in Chirundu, the traditional leader said the
