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The Global Center on Adaptation, together with the African Union, African Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Africa Adaptation Initiative, and the Climate Vulnerable Forum, are convening the Africa Adaptation Summit to lay the foundation for an adaptation breakthrough for Africa at COP27, in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt.
The Deputy Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism, and Hospitality Industry Zimbabwe, Hon Barbara Rwodzi is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands where she is attending the Africa Adaptation Summit 2022.
Zimbabwe has made strides in developing climate-responsive policies, strategies, and action plans at national, sub-national, and sectoral planning levels. The current National Development Strategy 1: 2021-25, mainstreams climate change across all its thematic areas with one on “Environmental Protection, Climate Resilience, and Natural Resources Management” which sets a sector outcome of “Improved Climate Action”. Furthermore, a National Climate Policy is in place and is complemented by sectoral policies on agriculture, disaster risk management, renewable energy, and biofuels towards enhancing climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Meanwhile, the Green Resilient Rapid Recovery Readiness Project in Zimbabwe was officially launched today at Monomotapa Hotel in Harare by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism, and Hospitality Industry Ambassador Raphael Tayerera Faranisi.