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Meet Catherine Namugala
Two of my colleagues were in Rwanda last week for a conference of African Ministers on climate change and whilst there they caught up with Catherine Namugala, the Zambian Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources.
She did a little video for ONE, talking about climate change in Zambia. She says that the adverse effects of climate change are definitely being felt in Zambia, most notably for subsistence farmers and others living off the land. Changing rainfall patterns as part of climate change are leading to increased flooding and drought for example.
Namugala goes on to say that even though her country does not contribute significantly to climate change, Zambia is focussing on raising awareness amongst the general population and also looking at ways to adapt to the effects of climate change. Emphasising that it’s a question of morality, Namugala concludes with a call to developed countries to do their bit as the major contributors of global warming.
-Jessica Gomez-Duran
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29/05/2009 at 4:06 pm
You know to do something about climate right know (I mean in following years) takes how much resources and budget? no developed country will accept such a change on this high cost, and the bigger the country the less chance of accepting. Considering that the catastrophe will take place in a hundred years from now it is even less probable.
I think It is better to focus on more at hand and cheaper-to-manipulate problems like AIDS or clean water for africans or women rights in both Africa and Asia.
29/05/2009 at 10:39 pm
This is a problem which will be world wide. The sooner the richer countries help themselves, and their poorer relatives the better. There is so much for many of the African countries to deal with. Disease ,orphaned children, poverty etc. that to dump the horrors of global warming on them, and tell them to start cleaning it up is ridiculous. Whichever way it happens, NOW is time to get started -
02/06/2009 at 3:50 am
The man issue of the climate change at this time is education to lower line people of the all over the world. if we educated to them first welly that help to save enviroment condition of the world and manage as well as the enviroment degradation of the country means save the climate or enviroment mean to save our earth animals life save or to do espical things to do more
23/09/2009 at 3:34 am
Global warming present time main issue worldwide espically in the mountain region of all world if we are not able to save our responsible to create welly may future generation cruses to us.