
By Vincent Nhlema
In recent years, climate change has become a global issue. At global level, world leaders have agreed to take necessary steps to reduce greenhouse gases which has become a major issue in dealing with factors that greatly contribute to global temperature increase. During the recent conference of partners (CoP26), climate campaigners pushed world leaders to implement policies that will limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
While climate change is a global issue, it becomes personal for people living in communities that depend on forests and agriculture, more so in least developed countries like Malawi. They feel the impact more because it has direct effects on their day-to-day life.
With the majority of people in Malawi depending on forests for energy, housing, and other agricultural activities (especially tobacco), preserving forests has become a farfetched dream. It takes one to appreciate the effects of deforestation on human life for them to pay necessary attention to forests.