adminThe two-day conference that is being held under the theme “Addressing behaviour, energy and climate change”, aims to collect ideas, share and apply them, and hopefully create bankable strategies that may be used in local climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.
Vice President Joice Mujuru, who is expected to deliver the keynote address, will lead a cast of top Government, business, environmentalists and international speakers that include three Cabinet ministers.
Event organiser Mrs Rebecca Gambiza said Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Management Francis Nhema, Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma and Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi were billed to address the conference.
She said the Indaba is targeting to shape and change the way that business is done with special emphasis on green development, as the centre point of all economic and social improvements.
“Green Business inspires a collaborative culture of new thinking and unconventional ideas that pushes change in unexpected ways,” she said.
“The conference is not about business as usual. It will facilitate the movement to transform business for good, through advancing change and market transformation by providing open-minded professionals unprecedented approaches to sustainability that are bankable and exciting.”
The Green Business Indaba is fundamentally built around the contentious concept of green growth, a type of development that is deemed sustainable and one that mainstreams the efficient use of resources for greater environmental care.
The indaba will discuss, among other things, climate change and global warming, green energy and efficiency, green building, industrial pollution, water harvesting, smart cities, public policy, law and health, environmental degradation, green technology as well as sustainable production.
Climate change has become a topical issue in recent years because of the serious threat it poses to the way people live.
Its effects have caused untold suffering in poor countries, which have experienced an increase in the frequency of catastrophes such as droughts and floods.
Agricultural production has been disrupted resulting in severe food shortages. Greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide are the biggest catalyst for climate change and global warming. The war is on controlling the emissions’ growth through renewable energy and energy-efficiency strategies.
Bongani Ndlovu