ABSTRACT
The global climate emergency calls for urgent attention. In Zimbabwe, climate change is real and search for more sustainable mitigation strategies have become mandatory. The option of traditional religious practices and values have not been adequately explored. This chapter argues that African Traditional Religion (ATR) makes valuable contributions towards mitigating effects of climate change in Zimbabwe. It does so by examining the Karanga subgroup of the Shona ethnic group’s traditional worldview and modes of preservation of nature such as indigenous knowledge system, taboos, rituals, and agricultural methods in mitigating climate change. It concludes that ATR is vital cog in addressing the challenges of climate change, laying the foundation for the achieving of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on climate action, namely, SDG 13.
