{"id":7454,"date":"2019-07-16T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:21:47","slug":"state-house-should-embrace-clean-energy-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/7454\/state-house-should-embrace-clean-energy-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"State House Should Embrace Clean Energy Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Nairobi, 11 July 2019 \u2013Responding to the news that State House has advertised a tender for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Irony-as-State-House-seeks-charcoal-supplier\/1056-5190032-yp7kuxz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Irony-as-State-House-seeks-charcoal-supplier\/1056-5190032-yp7kuxz\/index.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563358566050000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHbyg0DWrYuoCokJ1fLML1g4QHyAA\"> supply of charcoal<\/a>, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Campaigner, Claire Nasike has said:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWith a moratorium on logging in place, it is in bad taste for State House to put up a tender seeking suppliers of charcoal. During the One Planet Summit at the United Nations Environment Assembly, the President committed towards the realisation of 10 percent forest cover in Kenya by 2020. It is ironic for the President\u2019s official residence to put up such a tender, when Kenya\u2019s forest cover is still below 10 percent. Logging for charcoal production exacerbates forest loss. The country is also battling droughts worsened by deforestation. State House should lead by example and encourage citizens to conserve Kenya\u2019s remaining forests.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cKenya\u2019s government should put in place measures that will ensure full enforcement of the ban on logging. More importantly, the national government should ensure that the total ban on logging in all the community and gazetted forests is effectively implemented. State House should be at the forefront in supporting this moratorium by looking for cleaner alternative forms of fuel such as biogas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Notes to the Editor:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4 ) President\u00a0 Kenyatta indicated that his administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/starvoices\/p-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/starvoices\/p-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1563358566050000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFI-9qGtEGMXEVpKAc6ZiuwgtNbSg\">identified forestry<\/a> as a key sector of investment in the realization of the country\u2019s development agenda and is implementing the national green growth strategy that has set clear restoration targets aimed at achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Media contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hellen Dena, Greenpeace Africa \u2013 Communication Officer, <a href=\"mailto:hdena@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hdena@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +254 717 104144<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 11 July 2019 \u2013Responding to the news that State House has advertised a tender for the supply of charcoal, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Campaigner, Claire Nasike has said: &nbsp; \u201cWith a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":7472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,40,64],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-kenya","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}