Better days are coming: President
President Mnangagwa addresses the nation at State House in Harare yesterday. Picture: Believe Nyakudjara
Address to the nation by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Cde E.D Mnangagwa yesterday
Fellow Zimbabweans; I address you today a month into the year which we believe will be prosperous and peaceful.
As Government, we continue to bolster our national resolve, determination and action plan towards arresting the impact and spread of the COVID-19 outbreak within our country.
The more infectious second wave which has touched the whole world has not spared Zimbabwe.
Civil society representatives in Trinidad and Tobago advocating for their country to sign the Escazú Agreement to guarantee access to information and public participation in environmental matters. Photo courtesy Omar Mohammed, used with permission.
This article was originally published on Cari-Bois News. An edited version is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices.
Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago now have unhindered access to critical information about the environmental and social impacts of development projects on their communities.
This follows a major win for environmental transparency by the watchdog group Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS), which successfully mounted a legal challenge against the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) in order to gain full access to the findings of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs).
Judge: EMA must give access to environmental impact assessments
Gary Aboud of Fishermen and Friends of the Sea. -
THE Environmental Management Authority (EMA) is not prohibited from supplying copies of environmental impact assessments (EIA) to the public or NGOs once the prescribed fees are paid.
In a recent ruling, a High Court judge held it would be unreasonable and irrational to impose a ten per cent limit on photocopying complete documents.
Justice Devindra Rampersad in a ruling on a statutory interpretation claim brought by the EMA also held that the environmental body could not claim third-party copyright as justification for not providing whole copies of EIAs.
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Thursday 21 January 2021
In this 2015 file photo, a thick, billowing smoke blows from a fire at the Beetham landfille. FILE PHOTO/ANGELO MARCELLE -
Last week, the Ministry of Planning unveiled the results of the National Climate Mitigation, Reporting and Verification System (MRV). Except it wasn’t actually the results that one would have expected – namely new, verified and accurate data on the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Instead, it was a presentation of a new standard monitoring and evaluation system – the first of its kind in the region – to help create a template for reporting agencies and regulators to better assess the country’s ability to achieve its GHG reduction targets.