By Ruth Keah I rkeahkadide@gmail.com Victor Orindi, head of Adaptation Consortium As curtains closed on COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Adaptation Consortium, a Kenyan organisation emerged among winners of the Local Adaptation Champions Awards, organised by the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).The awa ...
Technology assists fisher folks avoid post-harvest fish spoilage
By Tebby Otieno tebbyotieno62@gmail.com and Ruth Keah rkeahkadide@gmail.com Mwajumbe Mwabedarusi, a seaweed farmer drying seaweed at the innovative drying site. Photo credit, Tebby Otieno A new fish preservation technological intervention is set to assist fisherfolk reduce the possibility of fish spoil ...
Locals in South Coast Kenya to benefit from the carbon market initiative
By Ruth Keah I rkeahkadide@gmail.com Dr Kipkorir Langat, Principal Scientist, Kenya and Marine Fisheries Institute. He says that to include sea grasses and mangroves in carbon management is key in conservation Explaining the scientific word carbon credit to locals in Gazi and Makongeni Villages in Kwale ...
COP27: Rwanda says hopes for establishing loss and damage fund in line with Paris Agreement fading
by Aimable Twahirwa Rwanda_Negotiators The Deputy Director General of Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA)and Rwanda’s Lead negotiator at global climate talks in Sharm El Sheikh on Friday pointed out that Rwanda and other vulnerable countries had much expectation in securing a decision of ad ...
Activists: We will win against fossil fuels
African activists have promised resistance at home to oil-and-gas touting leadersBy Agatha Ngotho Members of GreenFaith, a multi-faith climate justice organization, demonstrate at the Action Area in Sharm El Sheikh, where the COP27 has been going on for almost two weeks Climate activists from across su ...
COP27: Negotiators worried over little progress on climate talks
African climate negotiators express concern over lack of progress on adaptation, climate finance, loss and damage By Agatha Ngotho Alioune Ndoye, President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) and Collins Nzovu, Chair of the African Group of Negotiators during a media briefing on the status of the negot ...
COP27: Action plan to make clean technologies cheaper launched
By Aghan Daniel I aghan@meshascience.org Activists at the COP An initiative that seeks to reduce carbon emissions, a major contributor to the warming of the earth, has been launched. The announcement was made at the on-going UN Summit on Climate Change popularly referred to as COP-27 being held at Shar ...
COP27: New report urges innovative building solutions as Africa’s response to reducing greenhouse gases
by Aimable TwahirwaDespite an increase in energy efficiency investment and lower energy intensity, the building and construction sector’s energy consumption and CO2 emissions have rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic to an all-time high, a new report finds.Released at the latest round of climate talks in Egypt, COP27, the 2022 Global Status Report ...
