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Dredan Njau

Masdar leads UAE investments in Africa’s Green Growth

In a plan to accelerate the adoption of clean energy in Africa, UAE renewable energy giant Masdar has forged a strategic partnership on the continent. Masdar has partnered with Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform to identify, fast-track, and scale clean energy projects across the continent. By combining Masdar’s technical expertise and experience in the emerging markets with Africa50’s project development track record, this alliance will speed up growth in the clean energy sector. The partnership will bridge the infrastructure funding gap, rallying both public and private finances to unlock Africa’s immense clean energy potential. Masdar in Africa The initiative will bring together a coalition

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Shelter Afrique
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Newsroom

Shelter Afrique leads the charge for climate-resilient housing

Nairobi-based pan-African housing financier, Shelter Afrique, is spearheading an ambitious vision for Africa’s cities, one that champions climate-resilient housing, affordability, sustainability, and enhanced mobility. At the ‘Integrated Liveable African Cities’ session of this week’s Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, hosted by Kenya in collaboration with the African Union Commission, Shelter Afrique’s Managing Director, Thierno Habib Hann, urged governments across the continent to embrace climate-resilient housing. Mr Hann also called on governments to initiate incentives that revolutionize the production of affordable homes while minimizing construction costs. Affordable housing projects He cited examples of climate change integration in national development plans, stating, “For instance, Kenya considers climate…

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Otiato Opali

Sweeping your front yard to clean Mathare River

As a photojournalist I tend to veer off the path of regular schedules drawn by the search for freezing memories. On this Friday while reporting on some charity work to help a school in Mathare slums, I trailed off, as usual. That morning as I arrived at the school where the organization was making donations, I saw a group of young men in gumboots and overalls ferrying garbage from a valley across. After the day’s work was over at noon, I chose to speak with them. There is an exciting fervor of fear that hangs over the depths of informal settlements. One needs bravado to…

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ClimateEconomy
Dredan Njau

The company taking out 3 percent of Nairobi’s trash

Within the shadows of our present day society, a hidden menace looms large: WASTE. The aftermath of unchecked consumption coupled with inadequate waste management keeps growing towering mountains of garbage in informal areas such as Dandora’s dumpsite and Mathare seeping back into our ecosystems via our city’s rivers. Even though Kenya banned single-use plastics in 2017, plenty of merchandise packaging, used clothing, straws, and food-grade plastics are moving between our houses and landfills. Sometimes, they find their way back onto our table tops as recycled materials.  Earlier on this year, an orange coloured lorry with modified containers labeled “Taka Taka Solutions” would have passed me

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ClimateCorporate

Kenya is ready for a deposit return scheme

I remember as a child my father used to keep a crate of soda bottles in a store somewhere waiting for Christmas celebration or when one of us excelled in school where we would be treated to the sugar rush. On such occasions we would dig out the dusty bottles, clean them of cockroach limbs that had died on a mission impossible to enjoy the sugar stuck at the glass bottom before we returned them to the shopkeeper. Failure to which we had to deposit Kes10 until we returned the bottle. However, today with the rise of convenient plastic, it has become easier to buy

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President William Ruto
ClimateNews

Climate Summit seeks Nairobi Declaration for green growth

Tens of Heads of State, policymakers, global leaders, civil society, and the youth are meeting in Nairobi starting September 4-6 for the inaugural African Climate Summit that seeks to develop the Nairobi Declaration for green growth, which will serve as a blueprint for Africa’s transition to green energy. The African Climate Summit, with its overarching theme of “Africa Together for Bold, Innovative and Resourced Climate Action: Unlocking Climate Finance and Green Investments,” holds a pivotal role in shaping the continent’s response to the pressing issue of climate change. Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change It is a collective effort to consolidate Africa’s voice on the global…

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Emobility
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Rall_E ignites Kenya’s electric mobility revolution

As the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) gets underway in Nairobi the need of Kenya and other economies across Africa to limit the use of fossil fuels by among others adopting electric vehicles is gathering pace. Policymakers and governments agree that the African continent needs to revolutionize clean, affordable, and accessible mobility. Rall_E—an electric mobility initiative is gathering pace, promising to be a game-changer in the transportation landscape. Comprising engineers, entrepreneurs, academics, and government officials, Rall_E seeks to accelerate the transformation of sustainable transportation across Africa. Initiated by TES Network, Rall_E is leveraging a series of side events organized around the Africa Climate Action Summit to…

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Desert locusts
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Rain, regional conflict risks returning Dessert locust threat

The good rains risk creating the perfect conditions for breeding dessert locust at a time when regional coordination for fighting the cross border menace is at its lowest as East Africa is plagued by widespread conflict. Experts released the 65th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum warning that as the rains persist in the region, the conditions might become favourable for desert locust infestation in the region. However conflict, that has rocked Ethiopia, Sudanese civil war, resurgence of terrorist activity in Somali and the Yemen crisis will make it difficult to coordinate cross border fight against the pests. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) experts…

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El Nino
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Otiato Guguyu

Met confirms El Nino rains expected in October through 2024

Kenyans have two months to ensure harvest are dried and stored before El Nino rains start pounding the country from October. Communities living in areas that are vulnerable to mudslide will also need to move even as the government steps up cholera vaccinations as well as stock up on malaria drugs to beat torrential rains that will pound the country starting October through to next year. Chance of El Nino at 90 percent The state and multilateral bodies have confirmed that the chances of the country experiencing El Nino rains are almost 90 percent. The heavy rains will start in October and extend into early…

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