Zimbabwe: EMA Shortchanging Public Health

Harare — GOVERNMENT recently gazetted licence fees for air pollution and by any measure this is -- to an extent -- a demonstration of the State's commitment to green policies.

However, environmentalists have complained that these are too low to induce polluting companies to adopt cleaner technologies and to cover the cost of clean air enforcement programmes.

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