Namibia has called for continued climate financing and stronger cooperation with the Green Climate Fund to strengthen resilience against climate change and recurring droughts.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform plans to revive a technology centre in Rundu, after years of limited activity. The centre is expected to support agricultural mechanisation by managing and monitoring systems that benefit Green Scheme irrigation projects and subsistence farmers.

The Livestock and Livestock Products Board of Namibia held a climate-smart beef initiative engagement, focusing on how farmers can improve the quality and productivity of their meat-producing livestock through the Beef Genomics Programme phase 3.

Members of Parliament scrutinised the N$1.3 billion budget allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, raising concerns over funding sustainability, equitable distribution of marine resources, agriculture decolonisation, and water harvesting strategies.

MPs have questioned the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism's capacity to tackle poaching, its effectiveness in dealing with wildfires and its approach to human-wildlife coexistence.

This was raised during the debate of the budget allocation for the ministry of about N$736 million dolars.

Some Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states are grappling with severe humanitarian crises following devastating floods and torrential rains, as the harsh impacts of climate change exacerbate the La Niña weather phenomenon.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has warned that water scarcity and inadequate sanitation could fuel migration, displacement and conflict across Africa if urgent action is not taken.

A two-day workshop, hosted by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, will see public officials, together with industry players, probe matters of environmental management and the potential related crisis shocks. 

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has issued an urgent appeal for global climate action, exposing the harsh realities confronting Namibia and calling on the world to move beyond diplomacy toward concrete results. 

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has pointed out the failure to keep global warming below the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.