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31 Oct 2025
The Road to Belem: What to Expect from COP 30
As the world prepares to convene at the 30th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) in Belem, Brazil (10-20 November 2025), the global climate agenda stands at an inflexion point. The prece...
24 Oct 2025
Financing the Future: How Purposeful Banking is Powering East Africa’s Green Transition
Across East Africa, the conversation on sustainability and greening our communities is quickly moving from boardrooms to communities. What once sounded like a distant global agenda is now a pressing l...
9 Oct 2025
From Voluntary to Vital: Sustainability Reporting is Here to Stay
There’s been a noticeable shift in how businesses across the region are now approaching sustainability. More companies are publishing sustainability reports, not as a branding exercise, but to demon...
3 Oct 2025
The Urgent Quest to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
The year 2030, once a distant horizon on the global calendar, is now rapidly approaching, bringing with it a critical deadline for humanity’s most ambitious project: the Sustainable Development Go...
26 Sep 2025
Waste to Wood: How Rice Husks in India Are Powering a Greener Future
In the global push for sustainability, innovation often comes from unexpected places. In India, a company called Indowud has turned a common agricultural by-product into a revolutionary building mater...
19 Sep 2025
The Inseparable Bond Between Development and Human Rights at UNGA 2025
“Eighty years ago, from the ashes of war, the world planted a seed of hope. One Charter, one vision, one promise: that peace is possible when humanity stands together.” António Guterres &...
12 Sep 2025
Africa Charts a New Course in the Concluded Africa Climate Summit
The Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, concluded with a landmark moment: African leaders officially adopted the Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating Global Climate ...
5 Sep 2025
Turning Policy into Action and Building Africa’s Green Future
When you talk to farmers in Machakos struggling with failed rains, families in Lagos wading through flooded streets, or fishermen in Mombasa watching their catch decline as oceans warm, one truth beco...
29 Aug 2025
Repurposing Textile Waste as a Catalyst for Circular Innovation
If you’ve ever cleaned out your wardrobe or donated a bag of second-hand clothes, then you are part of a larger movement, one that’s quietly transforming how the fashion industry manages its waste...
22 Aug 2025
Sustainable Solutions: Tackling Period Poverty in Kenya with Reusable Sanitary Panties
In Kenya, menstrual health remains one of the most pressing yet often overlooked sustainability issues. While progress has been made, such as the government’s distribution of sanitary pads in school...
15 Aug 2025
Plastic Treaty Paralysis: Kenya and Tanzania Lead Regional Fight While the World Stalls
The clock is ticking towards environmental catastrophe, but the international community remains frustratingly gridlocked. As reported by The Guardian on August 13th, 2025, crucial negotiations for a l...
8 Aug 2025
Textile and Plastic Waste in East Africa: A Growing Environmental Crisis
In the heart of East Africa, where the rhythm of life beats in markets and the breathtaking beauty of our land wows us, we’re facing a quiet but growing crisis. It’s a crisis you can see on our st...
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