Sophie Mbugua

Sophie is an Environmental Journalist based in Kenya and the founder: Africa Climate Conversations. Sophie spends her days shaping the African climate change and environmental narratives aimed at bridging their reporting gaps in the continent.

Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy Transition Focused on Human Rights

Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential. However, Manson Gwanyanya, the researcher… Read More

3 months ago

How can airlines help bridge existing weather data gaps?

Weather information is critical for communities, industries, and development sectors to adapt to climate change. Despite the severity and frequency… Read More

4 months ago

Meet a Kenyan teacher teaching children crucial environmental skills.

Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad. Environmental… Read More

5 months ago

How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman’s beaded basket sales

This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour's… Read More

6 months ago

Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past experience?

African nations are blessed with 30 percent of the world’s critical minerals. Minerals that the world needs to develop solar… Read More

6 months ago

Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature’s Fragile Balance.

Humanly speaking everything existing in nature from forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite… Read More

7 months ago

Why planting mangroves is not the solution.

As forests, mangroves are very adaptable and can handle a lot of disturbances. "I don't support planting mangroves; instead, I… Read More

8 months ago

Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story from Kenya

Munje, Mswambeni Kenya, In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 women came together to preserve a portion of mangrove forest… Read More

8 months ago

Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.

Along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a small archipelago north of Mombasa in Kenya, Coral reefs have degraded over… Read More

9 months ago

Spring water changing lives in Kenya.

Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya's Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many… Read More

9 months ago

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