Category: Climate Change and Environment Weekly Column

UNDERSTANDING THE AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT AND IT’S IMPLICATIONS FOR ZAMBIA

The declaration highlighted that climate change is the single greatest challenge facing humanity and thesingle biggest threat to all life on Earth. It acknowledged that Africa was not historically responsible…
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Legal Framework Governing Large-Scale Land Based Investments in Zambia.

In last week’s column, I made an effort to introduce the concept of Large-Scale Land based investments and highlighted some of the challenges that come with Large Scale Land Based…
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PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE LARGE -SCALE LAND BASED INVESTMENTS IN ZAMBIA.

Globally, there has been a trend towards adopting improved frameworks to promote responsible land-based investment, but many African countries, including Zambia, still lag in this area. Large-scale land-based investment, particularly…
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FLOODS & THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON LIVELIHOODS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

In this week’s Monday Opinion, we are looking at the impacts of climate shocks and among them is flood events. We are discussing the implications floods on livelihoods, risk reduction…
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An Introspection of Practical Measures to Flood Risks Reduction.

In last week’s opinion, we looked at floods and their implications on the livelihoods of communities by contextualising the impacts on local communities, actions devised to ameliorate flood risks as…
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