COP25: $300b for Climate Finance: Take it or Leave it!
by Sophie Mbugua, Baku, Azerbaijan: After tense negotiations, deadlock, and near collapse, the 29th Climate Summit (COP29) successfully bulldozed...
by Sophie Mbugua, Baku, Azerbaijan: After tense negotiations, deadlock, and near collapse, the 29th Climate Summit (COP29) successfully bulldozed...
Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential. However, Manson Gwanyanya, the...
Weather information is critical for communities, industries, and development sectors to adapt to climate change. Despite the severity and...
Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad....
This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an...
African nations are blessed with 30 percent of the world’s critical minerals. Minerals that the world needs to develop...
Humanly speaking everything existing in nature from forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as...
For effective climate action in Africa to take shape, the African Group of Negotiators lead negotiator on finance, Ambassador...
The climate finance needs of developing countries have risen way beyond the 100 billion USD promised by developed countries...
COP28 takes place against the backdrop of increased financial needs to address climate change adaptation, mitigation, as well as...
A 24-member transitional committee on loss and damage issued a proposal for a new loss and damage fund ahead...
Nairobi, Kenya: Economic and non-economic loss and damage associated with the extreme event are increasing in developing countries. Extreme events...
During the 28th United Nations climate summit, hosted by the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December...
Nairobi Kenya: World leaders gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, 50 years ago, and remarked that man is both a creature...
Garissa Kenya: Plonked in the middle of the desert 14 kilometres from the centre of Garissa is the largest...
Happy New Year: 2023.Last year the year 2022, the average global temperature was about 1.15 degrees Celsius. 2022 marks...
The 27th United nation Climate summit (COP27) is eight weeks away. COP27 occurs when several climate-related emergency crises, such...
Africa is a continent hard hit by climate change though least emitter. Erratic rains and floods, prolonged droughts, climate...
Drought situation continues to worsen in Kenya. In Kenya’s Rift Valley, local says they last harvested since 2018. This...
Intense floods, cyclones, and drought, have devastated many sub-Saharan African countries, this year. As temperature rise, so does the...
Between 1970 and 2019, more than 11 000 disasters were attributed to weather, climate, and water-related hazards worldwide. This...
Professor Paul Kimani, a plant breeder and lecturer at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences at Kenya’s University...
Kibera- the biggest informal settlement in Kenya and possibly in the African continent. According to UN-Habitat, Kibera has the...
Urban development in Kenya’s Capital city, Nairobi, started when Nairobi was established as a railway headquarters in the late...
The IPCC has released the Working Group II report prepared by 270 scientists from 67 countries on the latest...
Accra Ghana: Ghana began monitoring air quality in 1996. Over the years, several sectors have collaborated to reduce air...
Annually, nearly 20 million people leave their homes due to climate-induced displacement, according to the United Nations High Commissioner...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report on global warming clearly shows that human influence is responsible...
Africa is the most vulnerable to climate change and among the most impacted by climate change. Under the international...
For the world to achieve the Paris agreement goals, climate finance which has been a contentious issue under climate...
Africa is the continent most vulnerable to climate extremes. The IPCC six assessment report (AR6) confirms the continent warms...
Covid 19 has already demonstrated the availability of funds when a crisis occurs. Unfortunately, a report by nature shows...
The climate emergency is worsening. The world has witnessed record-high temperatures, widespread wildfires, and increasingly unpredictable floods and droughts....
The Kyoto protocol recognised Africa for its vulnerability to climate change. But under the Paris agreement, Africa lost that...
This episode marks the beginning of building momentum to the 26th United Nations Climate Change conference also known as...
The 26th annual UN climate conference will occur between 31 October and 12 November this year in Glasgow, Scotland....
Africa representing over 17 percent of the world population, is responsible for less than four percent of global emissions....
A 2021 report Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) notes that...
This week, we are talking about empowering children to conserve biodiversity and the environment. It is what Miti Alliance...
Did you know that a third of Africa’s forests have already been lost, mainly to charcoal production? Yes, that...
Today we are in Kenya’s Nakuru County in a town named Mai Mahiu meaning “hot water” about 60kms drive...
Human activities have warmed the climate at an exceptional rate as per the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Zinder Niger: Zinder Faiza Habou, a 17-year-old secondary school student from Zinder, Niger’s second largest city, and her mother...
In Africa, pastoralists use natural indicators such as migratory birds and certain plant species to migrates. But due to...
Today Salina Abraham, the Global Landscape Forum strategic adviser joins me as we investigate what was achieved last week...
The Global Landscape Forum Africa 2021 kicks off tomorrow, the 2nd June, for two days. The digital conference dubbed...
In 2014, the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) funded the Strengthening climate resilience project...
African drylands are home to more than half a billion people who live and work in the drylands. “We...
A Just transition is about ensuring that no one is left behind or pushed behind in the transition to...
Climate change impacts men and women differently. When the COVID-19 pandemic has led to income losses increasing the poverty...
Mental health is not often directly linked to climate change. But let’s be honest, temperatures are rising, floods, droughts,...
Africa accounts for total funding of 300 million USD of the The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience. The pilot...
When extreme events happen, they leave a trail of loss and damage that is both economical and non-economical. It’s...
Africa requires as much as $2.8 trillion through 2030 to implement its climate commitments set out in countries’ national...
Mental health problems in Kenya and Africa are often interpreted from either a religious or traditional perspective influenced by...
Is mental health pushing Kenyan youths to drugs? This week, we are still staying in Murang’a county. Today, we...
In Kenya, as in most of Africa, landslides are the most dangerous natural disaster. Literature reviews show that not...
About three years ago, a landslide struck in the middle of the night. Taking away 39-year old mother of...
Kilifi county in Kenya has three practicing mental health specialists against a population of about 1.4 million. Mental health...
In today’s episode, we talk to Elias Fondo, the Kilifi County Mental Health Clinical officer, Leonard Nasoro, a mental...
Nairobi Kenya: Strathmore University in Kenya installed a 600 kWp grid-connected solar PV system in 2014. Today, the solar...
The transport sector accounts for at least 22percent of all global related carbon dioxide emissions according to the International...
Dealing with Covid19 has proved, if there is a will, there is a way to provide more finance to...
In April 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the UN postponed to 2021 a critical climate summit known as...
Africa remains the world’s most energy-scarce continent. Nearly 600 million of the world’s 789 million people without access to...
The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), estimates that Covid-19 could cause Africa’s economies to shrink by between 1.8...
On average climate change is costing African economies 2 to 3percent of their GDPs. This is according to the...
A report by the Africa Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), on...
Africa contributes the least to climate change. However, droughts, and floods in Africa has intensified. In about three months,...
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