Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:19:33 +0000 By MAILESI BANDA THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC), has advised Government to allocate adequate resources for climate change initiatives to be successfully achieved. PMRC executive director Bernadette Deka said with adequate resources, Zambia will be able to attain the set objectives enshrined in the National Policy on Climate Change. Zambia launched the National Climate Change Policy on 3rd March 2017. It is aimed at stemming the impact of climate change and subsequent reduction of the country’s annual economic growth due to crop failure and the impact of climate change on energy production. The National Climate Change Policy is a policy development that introduces a well-structured and coordinated national strategy to effectively tackle the adverse effects of climate change. And in making an assessment on the policy report, Ms Deka said there is need to include Strategic Environmental Assessment which is a set of analytical and participatory processes […]
