The thematic area of the Green Business Gazette (GBG) magazine focuses on how to mitigate climate change and adapting to climate change. Strategies for emission reductions and low emission development are clearly articulated. The thematic area also follows developments at the international arena, climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) including the conference of Parties. Articles in this thematic area are developed by leading climate experts and award winning journalists. A range of case studies are also presented in this thematic area.
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS PILE PRESSURE ON AFDB TO PUBLICIZE FOSSIL FUEL FINANCING EXCLUSION POLICY
Several Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from Africa and a few international organizations have submitted a petition to the President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina calling on the leadership of the bank to immediately put in place and publish on the AfDB...
Silent Killer – Air Pollution on the rise as communities threaten action.
Taking a breath of air is one of the first things that a new born baby does. As one grows up, breathing continues until the point of death. Breathing air is desirable only when the air is clean. The right to a clean and safe...
RECOVERING FROM A DISASTER – CYCLONE IDAI
Our memories can never forget that fateful day in the Eastern Highlands when a thick cloud of grief gripped the Chimanimani community due to the ravaging effects of cyclone Idai in the year 2019. Thereafter, government, development partners, companies and well-wishers have been working together...
ZIMBABWE’S CIVIL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT TO SET UP EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE SYSTEM TO DETECT PENDING DISASTERS
Zimbabwe’s department of Civil Protection is to set up an earth observation satellite system, a facility which is expected to house a multi-hazard or integrated early warning system for impending disasters in the country. A spokesperson of the department, Meliqiniso Sibanda said that all...
ZIMBABWE HEADING TOWARDS A CLIMATE CHANGE BILL
Still recovering from the ravaging effects of Cyclone Idai, Zimbabwe is in the process of finalising a Climate Change Bill to operationalise the National Climate Change Policy for enhanced climate change resilience. Speaking at the National Consultative Workshop on the National Climate Change Bill, Mr...
CLIMATE NEGOTIATION STALEMATES COULD COST THE PLANET TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS
“We have sleepwalked past the place of no return, jeopardising the health and safety of everyone on this planet. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand that fiddled while the planet burnt?” – Antonio Guiterres...
