Tag: Climate Mitigation

Turning Green Into Gold: Opportunities For Kenyan Tree Farmers To Profit Through Carbon Trading

In recent years, the conversation around climate change has increasingly encouraged innovative solutions that benefit the environment and local economies. Among these solutions is carbon trading, a market-driven approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For tree farmers in Kenya, carbon credits offer a valuable opportunity to turn sustainable practices into a new income stream. Thanks […]...

Will Africa table the loss and damage fund at COP29?

With COP29 approaching, African nations are preparing to make their voices heard in Baku, Azerbaijan, this November, and a key topic on the agenda is the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF). For Africa, where ...

11 Oct 2024

Vellum Green- ‘Urbisa’ movement: How women in Marsabit are restoring dryland ecosystems

Indigenous communities rely heavily on their immediate natural environments for their day-to-day lives and feel the impact of climate change more significantly. Due to persisting gender roles, women b...

17 Nov 2023

Nairobi summit sets the stage for historic plastic pollution treaty amid geopolitical dynamics

In a critical milestone toward addressing the global plastic pollution crisis, international delegates recently convened in Nairobi, Kenya, to advance discussions on a landmark treaty to fight global ...

26 Apr 2023

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Carbon Trading in Kenya

Carbon trading, or emissions trading, is a market-based mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is a tool governments and businesses use to limit their carbon footprint, which is the amount o...

31 Mar 2023

Sustainability reporting is a better option for businesses instead of greenwashing

Greenwashing is a term used to describe a company’s practice of making misleading or false claims about the environmental benefits of its products, services, or operations. Greenwashing is often...

17 Mar 2023

Fighting destruction of the environment through peacemaking efforts and environmental management

Peace and environmental management are linked in many ways. In the modern world, environmental degradation has become an increasingly important issue for peace and security. As the global climate chan...

10 Mar 2023

Chasing Zero: Achieving net-zero by 2050 calls for great sacrifices by all stakeholders

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a call to action, stating that global CO2 emissions must reach net-zero by approximately 2050 in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C abo...

20 Jan 2023

Fresh move to compel landlords to install solar water heating systems

If new regulations aimed at encouraging the adoption of renewable energies are approved, owners of all new and existing buildings risk spending six months in jail or paying a fine of Sh20,000 if they ...

16 Dec 2022

Tips on how to celebrate this festive season sustainably

Christmas is a wonderful time of the year that brings family and friends together to celebrate. Yet, with all the gifts, decorations and feasting, it can also be an expensive and wasteful holiday. For...

25 Nov 2022

Climate conference takeaways: Key outcomes from COP27 and the next steps as we head to COP28

Discussions over establishing a “new collective quantifiable target on climate finance” for 2024, taking into account the requirements and interests of poor nations, took place during COP2...

4 Nov 2022

Beyond donations during drought: Let’s adopt a climate action plan

The ASAL region of Kenya continues to suffer from a severe drought (2020 – 2022) that has been termed as the most severe and longest in forty years. Its widespread impacts on livelihoods are gri...

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