Climate diplomacy, conservation and the cost of a warming world.
BY MACHARIA WANGUI As Kenyans enjoy clean energy at the comfort of their rooms and office spaces, there are communities paying the huge price for its production. Kenya is on a transformative agenda to ensure 100 percent transition to clean energy by 2050, an ambitious project that is leaving many behind, lifestyles disrupted, cultures disintegrated
BY TONY WAFULA At least 40,000 small-holder farmers drawn from five counties have benefited from agroecology model of farming to increase food production and fight the global effects of climate change. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing Boosting Sustainable Food Production in Kenya (BOOST) projects in five counties: Bungoma, Kakamega,
BY MACHARIA WANGUI Far North in Uganda in Adjumani district, is a 1,259-hectare only tropical rain forest in the region named Zoka. Zoka forest is, according to residents and conservatists, a vital ecosystem that provides sustenance, spiritual significance and sense of identity to the locals. It is also home to the endangered Afzelia Africana tree species.
Women leaders from indigenous pastoralist communities’ lobby groups have called for peace and coexistence among the different groups even as climate change negatively impacts on their livelihoods due to droughts. Speaking during the commemoration of International Day of Rural Women, the leaders noted that despite efforts towards attaining Goal 2 of Sustainable Development Goals to
A drive to Loiyangalani, Marsabit county, paints a picture of a forgotten people. Driving for long hours (at least six) on an extremely difficult terrain with no sight of schools, hospitals/ dispensaries, permanent structures and other basic public amenities slaps you with the harsh realities of what decades of marginalization can do to a people.
Increased conflicts and insecurity, particularly the humanitarian emergency in the Sudan, the continued effects of the severe 2020–23 drought, and widespread macroeconomic instability are driving an extremely concerning food insecurity and malnutrition situation in 2024, a regional report says. The IGAD Regional Focus of the 2024 Global Report on Food Crises found that 62.9 million people
By AMB BITANGE NDEMO AND IRENE WAKESHO Africa faces significant challenges in selling carbon credits globally. Several sources indicate that the continent struggles to sell its carbon credits due to a lack of awareness, limited technical and financial capacity, high transaction costs, insufficient access to data, low demand and price due to oversupply, and complex
Amnesty International has called on states convening in Bonn, Germany, in preparation for COP29 in Azerbaijan to end years of broken pledges and inadequate climate finance from polluting nations. Through recommendations to parties to the UNFCCC on human rights consistent climate action in 2024 ahead of the Bonn Climate Change Conference on June 3-13, Amnesty called
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has appealed to international partners to enhance their support for programmes geared towards battling adverse effects of climate change in Kenya. DP Gachagua on Monday said the Kenyan government has scaled up response to climate change to mitigate against its impacts such as severe drought, enhanced rainfall and floods as witnessed
SOUTH AFRICA – The ambitious action against production and use of plastic has huge support across all countries, especially in the global south, a new study shows. The study by Greenpeace International conducted between February 16-26, 2024 16 across 19 countries indicates overwhelming public backing for measures aimed at ending single-use plastics and promoting reuse-based
BY CHRISTINE ZARFL and REBECCA PETERS Over half of Africa’s people – about 600 million – lack access to even the bare minimum of electricity. The tough question to answer is how access can be extended without adding to global warming by relying on fossil fuels. A team from Rwanda and Germany who work in the
BY AMB PETER MADDENS Today, February 26, 2024, the international community in Nairobi is opening the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly – one of the UN system’s key fora for debate, conversation and decision making on environmental issues. These meetings are held in Nairobi, because the city hosts the United Nations Environment Program, the UN
