{"id":16425,"date":"2025-12-01T05:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sadc-lawmakers-call-for-urgent-action-as-climate-impacts-escalate-across-the-region\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:35","slug":"sadc-lawmakers-call-for-urgent-action-as-climate-impacts-escalate-across-the-region","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sadc-lawmakers-call-for-urgent-action-as-climate-impacts-escalate-across-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC lawmakers call for urgent action as climate impacts escalate across the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are raising fresh concerns that climate change is steadily eroding living standards in the region, deepening poverty and sharpening inequality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women and young people, they noted, are increasingly on the frontline of these pressures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The warning emerged during the SADC Parliamentary Forum\u2019s 58th plenary assembly, held in Durban, South Africa (SA) on Sunday, where delegates exchanged accounts of how extreme weather and shifting rainfall patterns are unsettling local economies and straining social services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA\u2019s Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, who joined the session virtually, urged parliamentarians to move beyond discussion and craft policies that can help communities withstand the accelerating effects of climate change. He argued that the region can no longer afford fragmented responses, saying coordinated action will be essential if Southern Africa is to safeguard vulnerable citizens and build resilience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14019,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-16425","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Lawmakers from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are raising fresh concerns that climate chang","published_date":"2025-12-01 07:20:50","news_description":"Lawmakers from across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are raising fresh concerns that climate chang","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20237,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16425\/revisions\/20237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}