Zambia needs an effective emergency strategy for climate change

Action for nature has observed the need for Zambia to develop an effective emergency strategy to respond to the prevailing effects of climate change that speak to the reality on the ground.

Organization chief executive officer Chilekwa Kangwa Zambia is likely to suffer even more consequences of climate change if the government does not change the strategy of looking at climate change.

In a press statement obtained by Q news, Mr. Kangwa notes that there is need to develop integrated domestic frameworks for achieving climate justice and serve communities from total destructions, loss and damage.

He has explained that the loss of trees and vegetation has already caused climate change crisis, desertification, soil erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and a host of problems for indigenous people.

Mr. Kangwa further says Zambia, as a poor country with no resources cannot develop or use technology to solve climate change and strengthen community adaptation capacities hence the need to listen to the indigenous people and dialogue for nature-based solutions to counter loss and damage.

He says action for nature believes in the power of transformational education as a way to achieve environmental justice and community sustainable development regarding climate change effects and impacts.