Kenyan president William Ruto has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion. But, his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle.
Beneath the veneer of empty platitudes about acknowledging Africa’s role in conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, the Africa Climate Summit was mere geopolitics at play,...
Mangroves have been threatened by deforestation for decades, as agriculture and aquaculture, urban development and harvesting have caused the loss of more than a quarter of...
Over the last 20 years, the accuracy of early warning information has improved, at least for short-term predictions, but the main challenge has been reaching local...
The Northern Kenya Grasslands Carbon Project (NKCP) attempts to achieve a number of firsts but fails dismally in almost all of them, if the exposition by...
Current data shows that the share of Africa’s climate burden is far greater than is presently reported or imagined.
Manufacturers should be held liable for the harm caused by their products and they should be made responsible for the collection, recycling and final disposal of...
The distribution of global pandemic deaths ignored existing country vulnerability assessments and dealt some of the heaviest blows to the best prepared countries in the world
The materials used to make every day plastic items are harmful to human health yet we still make plastic because we need it. It is the...
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline has been thrown into the spotlight as investors raise concerns about environmentally damaging companies issuing debt labelled “sustainable”.
The environmental concerns of our day are overstated. Working with nature, rather than against it, can create far greater abundance.
The ban on plastics is yielding positive results in the form a cleaner environment. However, the search for environmentally-friendly and affordable alternatives to plastic carrier bags...