Introduction

Understanding domestic responses and approaches to environmental governance in Africa is important in demonstrating the commitment of states to ensure and promote environmental sustainability. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, he considers the retrogressive effect of these untransformed environmental and resource extraction laws to pursue sustainability in the Southern African region. Using a comparative approach to the legal framework of environmental protection and sustainability in Nigeria and South Africa, Kolapo Omidire compares the entrenchment and protection of environmental rights in these countries. Focusing specifically on the Batwa and Benet Indigenous Peoples, the author demonstrates how courts in these countries have adopted an apolitical approach to environmental protection and sustainability through litigation. While embracing the adoption of the Act as a positive step in the right direction against climate change impacts, he argues that the Act provides the normative compass for changing the climate change litigation scenario in Africa.