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Covid-19 Fuelling the Resurgence of Single-use Plastics
Africa is a world leader in banning plastic bags with thirty-four out of fifty-two countries having bans, or passed the legislation to ban single-use plastics. Much as the current COVID-19…
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Don’t Let Africa Become a Dumping Site: Greenpeace Urges CS Maina
Nairobi, 2 September 2020 – Following the release of the New York Times article and Greenpeace Africa’s Media Release revealing that lobbyists from the American Chemistry Council wants to use…
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Industry Lobby The US Government to Make Africa Backslide on Plastics
The American Chemistry Council has lobbied the US government during the COVID-19 pandemic to use a US-Kenya trade deal to expand the plastics industry’s footprint across Africa.
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Renewable Energy is the Key to Cheaper Electricity in Kenya
As the country strives to meet the goal of universal access to electricity, huge development needs to take place in Kenya’s energy sector.
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Lamu Coal Plant: A Bad Energy Source for Kenya
The dangers of investing in the Lamu Coal Plant and the various strides taken by environmentalists to halt its implementation
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Harnessing Solidarity and Meaningful Engagement to Address Kenya’s Broken Food System
COVID-19 and the recurrent extreme weather events caused by the climate crisis have exposed the underlying weaknesses in Kenya’s food system. This has renewed calls for policy adjustments to enable…
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Toxins in Our Food: Our Ask For a Ban on Toxic Pesticides
What does toxic pesticides in the food mean for Kenyans? Asks Greenpeace Africa Campaigner Claire Nasike
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Cutting the Hand that Feeds: The Plight of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
In the pre-colonial days of the early 1900s, Africans predominantly farmed finger millet, sorghum, pearl millet, amaranth, jute mallow, spider plant, and lablab, among other indigenous crops. The farms were…
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Collaborative efforts are needed to overcome a pandemic within COVID-19 pandemic
The world is ailing. COVID-19 has got humanity worried about it’s survival. Jointly the world has come together exploring measures and developing mechanisms necessary to overcome the threat posed by…
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Recycling is a “false solution” to plastic pollution
Greenpeace Africa Plastic Campaigner Amos Wemanya explains why recycling is a “false solution” to Africa’s plastic pollution crisis