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,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Cane production at Zambia Sugar Plc, dwarfed by 23 percent as revenue growth at the sweetening company rose, a company spokesperson said in an advertised statement. Zambia Sugar, majority owned by South Africa’s Illovo Sugar Africa, faced a decline of cane…
By Jeff Kapembwa It may rain heavily in Zambia with weather easterlies expected to converge on the Southern African state this weekend. Forecasts by NGA AgroClimate Tech, a weather analysis agency, says Zambia is gearing up for an active weather pattern this week, starting…
By Jeff Kapembwa Africa should preserve its natural; diversity for the sake of the future generation because they sustain livelihoods, regulate the climate, and hold deep cultural and spiritual value, the African Union says. Research findings show that the continent’s biodiversity is at greater…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia’s energy woes spurred by climate-induced actions are seemingly being addressed in collaboration with the private sector after Africa Development Bank approved US$14,5 million financing to install 20-Megawatt solar project in Garneton North in the northern part of the country to…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia’s quest to insulate the Southern African state from climate induced shocks and actualise the Green Growth Strategy (GGS) received a fillip from the private sector with a planned issuance of a US$100 million-worth sustainability Bond to raise capital. Zambia has…
We’ ve collectively as the world, failed to maintain the global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed and this will come to haunt us because of its severe consequences on the planet, says United Nation Secretary General, António Guterres. Guterres says despite…
