NewsDay (Zimbabwe)

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- Peter Makwanya

THE greenhouse predicamen­t has been the most viciously fought and contested phenomenon of humankind. Climate change has contribute­d to unending debates of conspiraci­es, hidden agendas, wits and jockeying sometimes designed to sanitise the abnormal.

The world has failed to implement and deliver the evidence that despite having awareness of vast carbon emission results on the ground are not associated with actions pledged.

The world is accustomed to different carbon emissions associated with a variety of activities shaping the global carbon narratives of our time.

Humanity is in an era where everyone is supposed to make use of the climate evidence experience­d and learned, to be able to explain and justify their actions and why they are taking such kinds of action.

In this emission discourse, it is important for people to demonstrat­e the reduction of carbon footprints within one’s control.

The global carbon emission conspiraci­es are punctuated by those who want to maintain the status quo, by continuing to emit while at the same time speaking the language of normalisat­ion and those that seek to reduce carbon emissions to make the world a better place.

Within the same bracket and context, there are also those who do not make decisions, who have no control and influence of the proceeding­s and they are the majority.

A certain section has also opted to deny, disinform and miscommuni­cate the status of climate change while others try to project the correct situation on the ground but without adequate resources.

The global climate community needs to be informed and continuous­ly engaged to achieve their climate action plans that contribute to net-zero scenarios. Tussling for carbon control and conspiraci­es does not pay since the global emission statistics do

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