As Malawi approaches the next disaster season, the effectiveness of its legal tools to manage and reduce risks hangs in the balance, awaiting the political will to turn policy into protection.
Stakeholders have validated a new study revealing that communities across Malawi are facing deep, often overlooked, non-economic losses and damages (NELD), including psychological trauma, cultural heritage destruction, and forced displacement, as a result of climate change.
Stakeholders in the Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) have called for more inclusive policies to protect vulnerable groups, particularly women, persons with disabilities, and rural communities, from the devastating impacts of climate disasters.
Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change says it will intensify efforts to implement the Environment Management (Plastics) Regulations of 2015 which bans importation, manufacturing, trade and commercial distribution of plastic bags and sheets less than 60 micrometres in thickness as one way of protecting and safe guarding the environment.
Civil Society Network on Climate Change (CISONECC) has called upon youths to be on the forefront in taking care of the environment as one way of showing responsibility and giving back to their communities.
We Forest, a non governmental organization in the environment sector, has called upon communities in Mulanje District to take a leading role in conserving the environment to minimize effects of climate change that ignite natural disasters such as devastating cyclones.
Civil Society Network on Climate Change (CISONECC) has encouraged children in the country to take part in environmental related activities if the country is to reduce climate change challenges.
The last time Malawi produced its State of the Environment and outlook report was in 2010.
Consultations in developing the latest one are underway involving...
Director of Climate change and meteorological services Dr. Lucy Mtilatila has bemoaned the limited funding allocated to the environmental sector which she says makes...