climate change Stories
Chief Justice Martha Koome has emphasised the need for courts to remain alert when dealing with land and carbon rights, ensuring communities benefit f...
South Sudan faces both worsening droughts and record-breaking floods that destroy crops and fuel food insecurity. These climate shocks can have implic...
The ICJ’s advisory opinion marks a turning point in global climate accountability, giving vulnerable countries a stronger legal foundation to assert t...
IOM Deputy Director General Ugochi Daniels said the people of Somalia are living through some of the harshest impacts of the climate crisis, which is...
The advisory opinion said governments must take appropriate measures to prevent environmental harm. This means that states are obliged to implement pr...
In January 2022, a deadly clash over pasture and water erupted between Wario’s community and the Degodia from Wajir County. Eleven people died, includ...
Principal Secretary Festus Ng’eno said the Ministry had opted to withdraw Legal Notice No. 71 to create room for broader stakeholder engagement.
In many rural areas of Kenya, women play a crucial role as the primary breadwinners for their families.
This digital platform serves as a centralised system for tracking, verifying, and managing emissions reductions from REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from De...
We are living in a world that is warming at the fastest rate since records began. Yet, governments have been slow to act.
Across cities like Nairobi and New York, more individuals and families are returning to the soil, not for leisure, but for agency over their food, hea...
The Climate Worx Program delivers outcomes across environmental, economic, and social fronts. Environmentally, it supports the revival of damaged ecos...
This includes the obligation under the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
In a special address at UN Headquarters in New York, Guterres cited surging clean energy investment and plunging solar and wind costs that now outcomp...
The funds will help county governments operationalise their County Climate Change Action Plans (CCCAPs) and invest in priority climate resilience init...
By early 2025, nearly 23 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya were deemed "highly food insecure," with over 11 million livestock lost in wha...
What’s often overlooked in the development policies to tackle these threats is a powerful sources of insight: Africa’s own history.
He emphasised the need for collaborative mobilisation of resources to finance climate interventions, pledging Kenya’s continued leadership in addressi...
The Breathe Cities Nairobi initiative, launched in September 2024, aims to cut air pollution by 30 per cent by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. Nairobi i...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 600,000 children under 15 years die every year due to respiratory infections linked to air pollution...
The report provides clear solutions, backed by data and real-world examples, showing that wetland recovery is achievable and cost-effective if governm...
In Mkupe, a once-thriving fishing village near Mombasa, life has changed drastically as prolonged heatwaves, vanishing mangroves, and declining fish s...
Around 14,700 to 5,500 years ago, much of Africa experienced wetter conditions – a time referred to as the African Humid Period.
As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) convened, Greenpeace Africa called on the continent's environmental ministers to demo...
The public needs access to accurate information about climate change, because this enables them to take action to stop global warming. Without accurat...
President William Ruto described the development as timely and critical to Kenya’s climate agenda.
At the centre of this effort is the Kenya Strategy for Development of Statistics (KSDS) II, a roadmap designed to streamline how data is collected, pr...
The 2025 Index places Kenya at position 88 globally out of 118 surveyed countries, down from last year’s rank of 70. ETI score has also declined from...
Their dreams of transforming agriculture through solar-powered water pumps have been shattered by ongoing anxiety and uncertainty caused by recurring...
