and resulting in more than 800 fatalities.8In the Horn of Africa in the east of the continent, an acute drought has affected over 20 million people and led to the loss of over 2 million livestock in Kenya alone.9Projections indicate further increases in such climate-related incidents, likely...
and power dynamics play a substantive and overarching role in shaping climate finance coordination in Kenya and Zambia.These political factors limit the extent to which greater country ownership translates to better or more effective coordination of climate finance; as such, ownership needs to be exami...
The summit comes after the African Union and the government of Kenya co-hosted the inaugural Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi in September, culminating in the Nairobi Declaration that calls for a significant overhaul of the global financi...
Companies can prioritize diverse types of sustainable investment finance to reflect their concerns about climate change and carbon emissions. One such investment avenue is voluntary carbon offset (VCO) projects, in which companies invest to offset their carbon footprint. However, despite growing research...
and Blood Institute all unrelated to the topic of this Editorial. James Kigera is the ex-officio president and secretary of the Kenya Orthopedic Association. Bob Mash reports receiving a grant on climate change and primary health care with University Ghent, funded by VLIR (Flemish Interuniversity...
According to Otieno, gender inclusivity should inform national and regional processes geared toward a just and sustainable transition in a continent reeling from a host of climate disasters. Evelyn Koech, the team leader of Environment and Resilience at UNDP Kenya, said African countries required gende...
More than 20 countries including Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico and Angola joined the alliance, which hopes to form the basis for an ambitious global agreement at Kunming. Governments are also due to raise climate ambition and put the world on track to limiting global heating ...
Kenya, like many other nations, is facing the pressing challenges brought about by climate change. Photo credit:Pool ByGeorge Wachira Petroleum consultant A UN report this week sounded an alarm that “ the climate time-bomb is ticking” as international climate goals ...
Kenya has projected BAU emissions of 143 MTCO2eq by 2030, so that gives them a goal of just on 100 MTCO2eq for that year on the basis of their INDC. Kenya has also made it clear that their INDC is subject to international support in the form of finance, investment, technology ...
In Kenya, a comparative analysis of three conservation schemes found that the REDD+ project fared better than two Payments for Environmental Services (PES) projects: the REDD+ scheme used gender targeting and mainstreamed “minimum standards” (p.444), although none of the three had an “...