{"id":49962,"date":"2023-07-25T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:58:56","slug":"matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","title":{"rendered":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate change and disasters, and that is a challenge that calls for a paradigm shift from investments in disaster response to preparedness.<\/p>\n

The deputy minister said this during the inaugural meeting of the Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action System (AMHEWAS) Steering Committee in Windhoek yesterday, which will continue until 28 July.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AMHEWAS programme is well positioned to mobilise resources and establish multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to reduce disaster losses by 2030, which will contribute to building a resilient continent,\u201d Matundu said.<\/p>\n

She also stated that there is a request for support to establish MHEWS for Namibia that will be aimed at reducing disaster losses and accounting for loss and damage and could be used for climate change negotiations.<\/p>\n

Adekunle Joliff Milton King, permanent representative to the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and chairperson of the bureau of the permanent representative council sub-committee on environmental issues, said Africa is facing increasing disaster losses and damages due to social and economic vulnerability and unsustainable land use practices, adding that floods, tropical cycles, landslides and windstorms have increased in frequency.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween January and June 2023, more than 700 people lost their lives, 152 000 were displaced, and over one million were disproportionally affected by tropical cyclones across Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar,\u201d King added.<\/p>\n

Director of sustainable environment and blue economy of the African Union Commission, Harsen Nyambe said even though Africans contribute the least to climate change, they have no choice but to address it because climate change means more Africans will go hungry and face epidemic diseases and vectors, and more of them will stand to descend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is for this reason that, as an African Union, we felt that we could no longer continue to talk because talk is cheap. It\u2019s time to walk the talk and embark on concrete actions that will help us avoid some of the challenges that we face in terms of climate change,\u201d Nyambe stated.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Namibia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate change and disasters, and that is a challenge that calls for a paradigm shift from investments in disaster response to preparedness. The deputy minister said this during the inaugural meeting of the Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-49962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"\nMatundu suggests climate change paradigm shift - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\",\"name\":\"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift - Namibia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":485,\"caption\":\"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\",\"name\":\"Namibia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift - Namibia","description":"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift","og_description":"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","og_site_name":"Namibia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":485,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift","datePublished":"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift"},"wordCount":356,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg","keywords":["africa press","Africa Press-Namibia","namibia"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift","name":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift - Namibia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg","datePublished":"2023-07-25T15:39:54+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-25T15:58:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, said Namibia is vulnerable to climate c ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2023\/07\/sm_1690287979.023382.jpg","width":720,"height":485,"caption":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/matundu-suggests-climate-change-paradigm-shift#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Matundu suggests climate change paradigm shift"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/","name":"Namibia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}