By Jeff Kapembwa Wildlife related crimes coupled with unabated and indiscriminate cutting down of trees for charcoal production, affecting Zambia’s ecosystem and biodiversity has forced two-agencies to join hands under the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to militate the uncouth acts. Estimates adduced in losses…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Pan African and the Islamic Banks are part of the 10 financial institutions mobilising US$185 billion for low and middle income countries to adapt against climate change by 2030 through construction of resilient infrastructure emission and other emission reduction projects….
By Jeff Kapembwa Africa climate campaigners have petitioned the Conference of Parties (COP 30) underway in Belem, Brazil to actualize parameters set to fight climate change haunting the continent-losing a cumulative US$440 billion to date. The consortium of non-state actors attending the November 11-21…
By Jeff Kapembwa Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon forests in Brazil ran amok, destroying property and injuring some security personnel at the opening of the annual climate indaba, the Conference of Parties (COP) 30, justifying the country’s cry over the escalating loss of an…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia should maximize production of coal, a fossil fuel, as a catalyst for sustained power to bolster economic growth, stifled by climate induced actions and other headwinds, local media reports say, citing Nigerian born-business magnet, Aliko Dangote. Dangote, who stopped over…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Pan African and the Islamic Banks are part of the 10 financial institutions mobilising US$185 billion for low and middle income countries to adapt against climate change by 2030 through construction of emission and other emission reduction projects. Climate experts,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Plans by Brazil to protect its tropical forests, vulnerable to financial exploitation and climate driven headwinds, received a fillip in Belem after interest groups pledged to help mobilize over US$6 billion to protect the country’s ecosystem. The just ended TFFF conference,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Climate change talks at the COP 30 which opens its doors in earnest from 11-21 November, may be in whispers for now, but, global leaders are poking each other, seeking to act in unison against drivers of the crisis chiefly the…
By Jeff Kapembwa World leaders and other interest groups have converged for a two-day-conference in the Amazon City of Belem, Brazil to launch the US$5 billion Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) arguably to mitigate the indiscriminate decimation of tropical forests and affecting global ecosystems….
By Jeff Kapembwa Yesterday, we carried a story on the forecast rainfall in Zambia for this weekend titled: “Zambia Braces for heavy rainfall weekend-Experts”: According to NGA AgroClimate Tech, a regional weather analysis agency: • It may rain heavily in Zambia this weekend with all-weather easterlies-East,…
