By Tendai Guvamombe
Harare, Zimbabwe (News of The South) – The Global Summit on Climate Change is just around the corner and member states under submission to the Paris Agreement on Climate are without any exception expected to reveal status’, checks and balances with regards to thier commitment on the reduction of carbon emissions.
This coming September is the month and Newyork City in USA will be the official venue for the Global Summit on Climate Change which will concurrently run alongside the highly profiled United Nations General Assembly.
Among the topical issues expected to take lead at the high profiled Summit is to do with how countries have shown resilience on climate change adaptation and mitigation measures.
According to Lawrence Mashungu from Climate Change Management Department in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water Resources and Climate Change, the Summit is set to be attended by Heads of States upon the call from the UN Secretary General, ideally create a platform for them to table thier pledges and nationally determined contributions with regards to low emissions strategies.
“The Summit will start with earnest implementation of the Paris Agreement in 2020 ,so UN Secretary-General saw it fit to bring together all the Presidents of the earth so that when they come to the Climate Summit they bring in actual pledges they are putting forward for climate change to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions and Globally to achieve the Low Emission Development Pathway for the world.”
Zimbabwe is among the countries that will inevitably thraw in pledges of its Nationally Determined Contributions(NDCs) intanderm with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change anchoring on showcasing innovative guides which spearheads green economy as well as specifications on how various institutions are embracing the main thrust if reducing carbon emissions.
Apart from this involvement of Private sector participation to the subject matter is relevant in the quest to spearhead sustainable development.
“Currently Zimbabwe has done well in terms of preparing for the implementation of the Paris Agreement and this is going to show case our Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Implementation Framework with the the impeded measurement reporting and verification.”
“ This will also pave way to shocase a world heritage which is economy wise, which is also welcosted and very specific interms of each and every sector is going to do in terms of reducing emissions concrete sector which Zimbabwean government is implementing together with the private sector where the energy and water efficiency program for the private sector as represented by the business council for sustainable development is implementing.”
A constant rise of carbon emissions among other greenhouse gases have been triggering atmospheric temperatures to rise beyond level of normalcy and a rapid change in weather patterns has been inevitable.
This have actually poised twofold challenges to places of the globe.
On Record waters of the Australian Great Barrier Reef is reported to hav warmed by 0,36 degrees with different ociens experiencing temperature rise therby comprising the aquatic life- lately coastal floids annually haunts India’s Mumbai while the Alps Mountains are slowly suffering the temperature rise effects and Chinese Gansu Province has completely turned to an arid desert.
Zimbabwe is still grappling with effects of the disastrous Cyclone Idai which claimed many lives and the rains disastrously affected Mozambique and Malawi.
Given such a predicament countries across the world should reach a consensus on low carbon emissions outside the bracket of different political ideologies, the Global target to completely reduce emissions will be certain by 2050.
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