CEJ flagged Off the National Environmental Protection Dialogue (EPD) which is an annual event starting 2020. The EPD2020 event was held under the theme: “Towards a Sustainable Mining Sector in Zambia through Green Investment for Nature and People”.

The dialogue focused on seven  (7) key issues namely; mining communities water rights, mining communities land rights and tenure, mining communities compensations, relocations and displacements, mining companies level of compliance on investment agreements, mining communities’ alternative livelihoods, mining impacts on biodiversity, and corporate social and environmental responsibility.