Linking Climate Resilience To Environmental Law

Authors

  • FLORENCE CHATIRA Department of Business Enterprise and Management, University of Zimbabwe. Author
  • STANDA SANI Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe. Author

Keywords:

adaptation, mitigation, climatology, climate risk, environmental policy , strategy

Abstract

Random changes in environmental setups have made it necessary for lawmakers to draft legislative objectives aimed at overseeing the welfare of the environment through environmental laws. For long, global environmental challenges have made policy-makers review, probe, inspect and evaluate adaptation and mitigation strategies to quickly address the common dilemma of ‗‘climate change‘‘. Therefore, the article critically argues that the ability of societies to close a gap towards climatic rarities is through effective climate resilience planning. Climate crises have had negative impacts on global polities. Such an unceremonious change in climate has wholly disrupted the stability of societies, mostly caused by the immense rise in new experimental technologies that can be responsible for modern day disasters. The article shows that the unrelenting rise in climate change can best be managed with a successful action plan of risk assessment which will concurrently help navigate the process of law-making to lower down climate risks. Because climate risks have had a negative impact on earth‘s society, the article further shows that mitigation and adaptation are key to cope with the climate which is randomly changing in the modern world. The article further shows that the existing connection between climate resilience and environmental law is inseparable. A random change in climate can be a push factor in the enactment of new environmental laws and policies to mitigate and adapt over the climatic desecrations.

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2024-10-10

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How to Cite

Linking Climate Resilience To Environmental Law. (2024). Lighthouse: The Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University Journal of Law, Economics and Public Policy, 3(1 & 2), Pages: 74 - 92. http://journals.zegu.ac.zw/index.php/lh/article/view/207