Govt crafting climate change-proof programmes

Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Hospitality Industry Munesu Munodawafa said government had created a climate change resilient programme to effectively deal with the effects of climate change.

Munodawafa told delegates at a national adaptation workshop held in Harare on Wednesday that the impact of climate change needed not to be overemphasised, given the extreme weather events such as flooding and droughts on the increase in recent years.

“Rainfall seasons are increasingly becoming uncertain threatening livelihoods, economic performance and the situation is worsened by the relationship between poor rainfall and GDP (gross domestic product) performance and this calls for climate action,” Munodawafa said.

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