Pekben Environment Institute

Greetings environment keepers hopefully l found you well.In response to this overwhelming infamous virus we as Pekben Environment have thought it incumbent upon ourselves to exhort you to avoid gatherings, keep a social distance prescribed by your national and international health counsellors make it a virtue to always wash your hands let's exercise the most stringent clinical measures to avoid the spread of the virus.

𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 🧴🧼

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 & 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗭𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘄𝗲 🇿🇼

𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲

Water is the primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change. Water availability is becoming less predictable in many places, and increased incidences of flooding threaten to destroy water points and sanitation facilities and contaminate water sources.

In some regions, droughts are exacerbating water scarcity and thereby negatively impacting people’s health and productivity. Ensuring that everyone has access to sustainable water and sanitation services is a critical climate change mitigation strategy for the years ahead.

Climate scientists have been saying all along that one of the primary effects of climate change is the disruption of the water cycle. Since so much of everyday life and planning is determined by hydrological systems, it is important to understand the impact that climate change is having (and will have) on drinking water supplies, sanitation, food and energy production.

The relationship between water, energy, agriculture and climate is as important as it is complex. Climate change has the potential to tip out of balance the relatively stable climate in which civilization has been built and jeopardize the security of water, food and energy systems. Over time, the effects of global warming due to the human-generated buildup of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere have become more evident. In 2017, major GHGs, like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide hit record levels.

𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲

Some general policy options for adaptation of water resources for climate change and/or variability include:

• Adoption of contingency planning for droughts;
• Making marginal changes in the construction of new infrastructure;
• Using inter-basin transfers;
• Maintaining options to develop new dam sites;
• Conserving water;
• Allocating water supplies using market-based mechanisms; and
• Controlling pollution.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗟 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚

𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘆𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀🌽🥜🧅🧄

The geographical location of Zimbabwe in the tropics makes it vulnerable to climate change through shifting rainfall and agricultural patterns,rising temperatures and frequent heat waves, drought and floods will destabilise agricultural production ,exacerbating the situation is our heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture, this will have adverse effects not only on humans, but also on livestock, which are a strategic investment to rural and farming communities; And also maize planted late will not give good yields,thus making maize production a less valiable activity under climate change conditions.The stimulated changes in crop yields are driven by two factors that is carbon dioxide enrichment and changes in climate.In the low-lying areas of Southern Zimbabwe for example it is probable that climate change will turn the region into a non-maize producing area as exemplified by reduced maize production in Masvingo.If global warning becomes a reality,this area which represents 42% of the communal area will become even more marginal for maize production.

𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: is the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy as Zimbabweans remain largely a rural people who derive their livelihood from agriculture and other related rural economic activities. Agricultural activities provide employment and income for 60-70 percent of the population, supplies 60 percent of the raw materials required by the industrial sector and contributes 40 percent of total export earnings.

𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 : contributes approximately 17 percent to Zimbabwe’s GDP. As the main source of livelihood for the majority of the population, the performance of agriculture is a key determinant of rural livelihood resilience and poverty levels. General challenges facing smallholder farmers (SHF’s) include low and erratic rainfall, low and declining soil fertility, low investment, shortages of farm power - labour and draft animals, poor physical and institutional infrastructure, poverty and recurring food insecurity.

𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: production is also vulnerable to periodic droughts. The peasant sector, which produces 70 per cent of staple foods (maize, millets, and groundnuts), is particularly vulnerable as it has access to less than 5 per cent of national irrigation facilities.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 🇿🇼

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, and resulting in increased temperatures, storms, droughts, and rising sea levels, will affect the incidence and distribution of infectious disease across the globe. This is true in Africa, where malaria continues to have dramatic effects on the population.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗭𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘄𝗲.

Climate variability and extreme weather phenomenon including floods,droughts and cyclones would trigger infectious disease epidemics such as malaria,dengue fever and diarrhoea.

𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀

These have a detrimental declining effect on agricultural yields prompting a wave of devastating hunger for an example the Elnino drought

𝗖𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀

They have a destructive effect on the infrastructure for an example the cyclone Idai which demolished schools(St Charles Lwanga in Chimanimani),bridges, a large population was left homeless and extensive loss of human lives.

𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀

On the 23rd of February 2020 the city of Bulawayo was hit by flash floods that destroyed property at some homes,bridges connecting Nkulumane suburb and Upper Rangemore in Umguza and another one on the Phekiwe river along Solusi road had been flooded causing transport and movement inconveniences.Floods also plunge a nation in health crisis particularly water induced disease for an example typhoid and cholera caused by bacterias carried into sources of drinking water by flooding.


𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗭𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘄𝗲.

Global warming has a resultant of increased ultraviolet rays and increased temperatures and this leads to the evaporation of main rivers and dams for an example the electricity crisis in the country is attributed to the low water levels in the Kariba dam as reported in February 2019.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time. 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 is about abnormal variations to the climate, and the effects of these variations on other parts of the Earth.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁?

Climate change will impact agriculture and food production around the world due to the effects of elevated CO2 in the atmosphere, higher temperatures, altered precipitation and transpiration, increased frequency of extreme events such as;hurricanes, tsunamis and cyclones.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 ?

It is the long-term rise in the average temperature of the earth’s climate system. It is a major aspect of climate change. Gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴?

The 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 are: deforestation through permanent land use change for agricultural products such as beef and palm oil (27%), forestry/forest products (26%), short term agricultural cultivation (24%), and wildfires (23%). Current patterns of land use affect 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 in a variety of ways.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 & 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗭𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘄𝗲 🇿🇼

This page will play an imperative role in endeavoring on identifying the factors contributing to global warming,climatic change and also disseminating the importance of a human friendly environment and providing solutions.Taking cognizance of the climatic dynamics we have observed it is clear that the environmental degradations and climatic problems are linked to Human influence so we shall along these lines help Zimbabweans observe and manage their environment and joint hands in safeguarding our atmosphere.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❤️ 𝑃𝑒𝑘𝑏𝑒𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑍𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑤𝑒 🇿🇼

𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 🌍
𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 ♻️
ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦🇿🇼