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Op-Ed | Empty Words Will Not Solve Perennial Lake Pollution, NEMA Needs to Take Action
Kenya’s water bodies have for a long time been a sink to excessive nutrients and untreated effluent from industrial and municipal activities. The waste disposed of in the water bodies has been causing a lot of challenges.
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Deadly Pesticide Used in Kenya Despite Warnings Over Ineffective Safety Measures: Greenpeace
Investigations by Greenpeace’s UK journalism unit, Unearthed, and Swiss NGO, Public Eye reveals how global pesticide giant Syngenta – and its predecessor companies (ICI and Zeneca) – has known for decades that a key safety feature in the world’s deadliest weedkiller fails to prevent poisoning deaths but that it led regulators and the public to…
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Pollution is destroying Lake Nakuru
Nakuru used to be known as the flamingo town, but not any more. Thousands of flamingos have migrated to other areas. With the rise of population in Nakuru, flora and fauna in Lake Nakuru, a protected wetland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, may soon begin to perish because of increasing levels of pollution from…
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Op-ed | Africa should aim for a future free of plastics
It is evident that there is a need to shift from the current state of affairs and forge a new pathway. We can’t go back to approaches where false solutions are fronted and promoted.
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NEMA Needs To Act Urgently To Save Kenya’s Lakes: Greenpeace Africa
Nairobi, 22 March 2021 – Following the recent calamity of poisoned fish in Lake Nakuru and Lake Victoria, Greenpeace Africa is calling on NEMA to commit to stopping pollution in…
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Committed Political Leadership and Regional Cooperation Needed to Address Africa’s Climate Emergency.
Climate change and COVID-19 continue to wreak havoc upon communities in Africa. Droughts, floods, cyclones, and locust invasions have caused far reaching damage to communities, livelihoods, ecosystems and infrastructure.
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Op-Ed | Slam the Kenya-US Plastic Proposal, Focus on the Climate Crisis
The UNEP acknowledged Kenya’s “stewardship” in the continental fight against plastic pollution; but, if the past fews months are anything to go by, its notoriously stringent anti-plastic laws may not have as firm a grip
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Kenya Must Not Backslide on Plastics as FTA Negotiations Resume
Nairobi, 3 March 2021- Responding to the news that Kenya and the United States are set to resume talks on the bilateral trade agreement after a four-month break
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Op-Ed | Why implementing NDCs in Kenya is long overdue
In December 2020, Kenya revised and resubmitted it’s National Determined Contributions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Kenya Still at Risk Despite UN Plastics Nod: Greenpeace
Nairobi, 22 February 2021 — In the lead up to the UN summit being held in Nairobi, UNEP has named Kenya as an emerging leader in the fight against…