{"id":82031,"date":"2026-03-11T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=82031"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:20:35","slug":"deadly-kenyan-floods-urgent-need-climate-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/82031\/deadly-kenyan-floods-urgent-need-climate-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Kenyan floods show urgent need to build climate resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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People salvage damaged vehicles from receding flood waters in downtown Nairobi following a night of heavy rainfall.
\u00a9 Tony KARUMBA \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Nairobi woke up on Saturday to streets turned to rivers, homes submerged, and families torn apart. At least 42 people have lost their lives<\/a>, fathers, mothers, children, swept away in a single night of rain. Greenpeace Africa grieves with every family carrying that loss today. We stand with the people of Mukuru, Kibra, Mathare, Huruma, and Embakasi, communities that had already endured so much, and that deserved so much more protection than they received.<\/p>\n\n

The people of Kenya deserve more than condolences. They deserve justice.<\/p>\n\n

Disproportionate climate impacts  <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

For years, communities, scientists and climate advocates across Kenya have raised the alarm that the climate crisis was not a future threat<\/a> but a present reality, already reshaping weather patterns, already threatening lives. Those warnings were not heeded with the urgency they deserved. The devastating scenes across Nairobi last week are a heartbreaking reminder of what is at stake when we fail to act in time.<\/p>\n\n

What Kenya is living through right now is not an isolated catastrophe. While Nairobi drowns, communities in North Eastern Kenya are facing prolonged drought<\/a> that has decimated livelihoods, dried up water sources, and pushed families to the edge. Flood and drought. Deluge and dryness. These are not opposites. They are two faces of the same broken climate system, and Kenya is bearing both at once.<\/p>\n\n

Scientists have confirmed<\/a> that the climate crisis made the extreme rainfall behind floods approximately 40% more intense. These are not acts of God. They are the consequences of decades of unchecked emissions<\/a> by the world\u2019s wealthiest nations and corporations, consequences being paid, in lives, by communities who contributed almost nothing to this crisis.<\/p>\n

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