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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
By Jeff Kapembwa Global corruption watchdog-Transparency International has warned of uncouth people that are corruptly looting global climate funds globally and devoid of transparency, a call for state and non-state actors to unite and plug the wanton plunder of resources meant to insulate people…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia has stepped up climate action with key policy decisions made to mitigate and adapt to the evolving crisis that threatens to reverse economic and environmental safety gains. Zambia, like many Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is grappling with the climate crisis…
By Jeff Kapembwa Dissenting voices over the continent reverberating in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement-the driver of climate change mitigation and adaptation chiefly in Zambia and other Least Developed, fueling concerns have devastating effects that might be too ghastly…
