The Togolese Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Agency (AT2ER) was announced as the winner of Ashden’s System Innovation for Energy Access Award as four other projects from Africa offering climate solutions earned global recognition in the prestigious annual Ashden Awards this year. AT2ER’s public-private partnership is set to electrify 300,000 rural homes by 2022 and…
Reforestation may not be sufficient for fighting climate change
In early July, a study in Science made global headlines: Earth could carry 4.4 billion hectares of canopy cover, which is 900 million more than today. Through reforestation, 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide could be removed from the atmosphere and climate change effectively slowed down. Scientists at the University of Bonn and World Agroforestry consider these figures strongly…
New UN report spotlights trends in Climate Action
By Henry Opondo While countries are stepping up institutional arrangements for planning, funding, implementing, monitoring and evaluating climate action, they however still need to make full use of key opportunities this year to shift gears. According to a report published by UN Climate Change, prepared as UN Climate Change input to the UN Climate Action…
Climate Change: African must build resilience
By Habimana Brian Participants at the high-level Africa Food Security Leadership Dialogue hosted by the Government of Rwanda in Kigali urged Africa to build resilience to respond to climate change. Africa’s food and agriculture sectors are among the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Small-holder farmers, small entrepreneurs, and their families, whose livelihoods depend…
Climate Change: Greenpeace claims IPCC to expose reality of deforestation
The state of the climate crisis on land and the urgent need to protect forests and shift our global food system to sustainability is expected to be laid bare in an upcoming authoritative UN report on Climate Change and Land. Ahead of the IPCC session in Geneva, Greenpeace Africa Senior Forest Campaign Manager Irene Wabiwa…
Climate Change: Kenya promises to work with CSOs
The Ministry of Environment has promised support for all the work by CSOs and indigenous people geared towards enriching the environment. Speaking today when he opened the Regional Dialogue for Indigenous Peoples and Southern CSOs, Kenyan Forestry and Environment Minister Keriako Tobiko praised the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance Executive Director Mithika Mwenda and encouraged…
Spread amenities, Africa told
By Adlyne Wangusi There is a need for regulation and sustainable urban policies that will ensure the amenities enjoyed by those living in cities trickle down into rural areas so to stem the increasing shifts into cities, Ben Campkin who is an expert and lecturer in matters to deal with urbanization from the University of…
Kenya’s Kitui County budgets for climate change
Kitui County Government sets aside funds to aid Climate Change Adaptation Kitui County has enacted a law that sets aside one per cent of its Sh11.7 billion annual budget towards climate change adaptation. “By the decision, the county wants to put climate change at the centre of its development planning and help vulnerable communities adapt…