Topic: climate change
COP29: Developing countries lambast $300 billion yearly climate finance pact
Nov 25, 2024 at 02:24 AM
Developing nations have faulted the $300 billion annual global finance target adopted at the COP29 summit in Baku to aid poorer countries cope with adverse effects of climate chang...
VIJAY SRIVASTA: Corporate organizations have a key role to play in driving carbon neutrality in Kenya
Jul 13, 2024 at 07:41 PM
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Earth is heating up, now 1.1°C warmer than in the late 1800s, and emissions keep climbing....
Kenya to lead action by Commonwealth countries on climate-resilient agriculture
Dec 04, 2023 at 02:16 PM
Kenya will champion the Commonwealth Living Lands Action Group on climate-resilient agriculture for food security, pledging to lead coordinated efforts across 56 Commonwealth membe...
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Kenyan banks pledge to embrace nature positive financing in decision-making
Nov 07, 2023 at 12:17 PM
Kenyan banks have pledged to lead efforts to enhance nature-positive finance following the launch of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) final proposals....
Equity CEO James Mwangi urges private sector to invest more in green growth
Sep 06, 2023 at 11:51 PM
Equity Group MD & CEO Dr James Mwangi has challenged the private sector in Kenya to invest more in innovative technologies that foster sustainable development across Africa....
Winners of the innovative Technology for Climate Hackathon in Kenya revealed
Dec 19, 2022 at 03:25 PM
Jacob’s Ladder Africa and Moringa School have unveiled the winners of the Technology for Climate Hackathon that challenged young people to develop innovative tech-based solutions...
40 African leaders complete AGRA inaugural food security programme
Dec 09, 2022 at 11:31 AM
40 food systems leaders from across East Africa have graduated from the AGRA-led Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture’s (CALA) Advanced Leadership Programme in Nairobi....
Wildlife Ministry hosts multi-sector roundtable on climate change in Kenya
Dec 09, 2022 at 09:49 AM
The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife held its first-ever roundtable with conservation stakeholders to discuss the critical role of wildlife in solving climate change challenges....
COP27: Peter Ndegwa leads over 50 CEOs from Africa in taking Climate Action
Nov 12, 2022 at 02:04 PM
The CEOs are part of the Africa Business Leaders Coalition (ABLC), an initiative led by CEOs arising from the UN Global Compact Africa Strategy 2021-2023 committed to advancing sus...
COP27: Anne Waiguru asks world leaders to prioritise climate change interventions
Nov 11, 2022 at 12:21 AM
Council of Governors (COG) Chairperson Anne Waiguru has asked world leaders to prioritise actions being taken to mitigate climate change and adaptation in all development sectors....
KCB, BasiGo Kenya launches product to finance acquisition of Green PSV Buses
Oct 05, 2022 at 03:03 AM
KCB has penned an agreement with BasiGo Kenya Ltd, an e-mobility startup and financing firm, that will enable PSV operators to access flexible financing to acquire Green buses....
FULL SPEECH: President Ruto vivid UN General Assembly speech in New York
Sep 22, 2022 at 12:25 PM
I suggest that we have a golden opportunity to faithfully adhere to this motto by augmenting it, in word and in deed, with an additional “B”: Building Back Better, from the Bot...
IFC in partnership with KCB to enhance access to climate finance in Kenya
Sep 09, 2022 at 12:10 AM
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and IFC have partnered in a move aimed at catalyzing growth of climate finance in Kenya by enhancing support for businesses addressing climate change....
RUSSO: Financial institutions must champion climate action in Kenya
Jun 17, 2022 at 02:00 PM
The issuance of climate-related risk disclosures guidelines by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), gives banks an opportunity to further strengthen the structures and policies that ha...
COP26: Kengen expresses commitment to deployment of renewable energy
Nov 03, 2021 at 03:47 AM
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (Kengen) MD and CEO Rebecca Miano says the firm is accelerating deployment of renewable energy to combat adverse effects of climate change....
Kenya will fully transition to clean energy by 2030, Uhuru pledges at COP26
Nov 03, 2021 at 01:52 AM
President Uhuru Kenyatta has pledged before the international community that Kenya is committed and is set to achieve full transition to clean energy by the year 2030....
Marathon G.O.A.T. Eliud Kipchoge asks world leaders to tame forest cover loss
Nov 02, 2021 at 07:26 PM
Kenya’s Olympic Champion Eliud Kipchoge has urged to world leaders at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland to do more to tackle the loss of forests globally....
Uhuru Kenyatta briefed on progress of Kenya-UK Health Alliance programs
Nov 02, 2021 at 05:09 PM
The KUKHA leaders briefed Uhuruon the KUKHA broad strategic partnership, including the roll-out of the Jomo Kenyatta Scholarship Programme and the building of a state-of-the-art tr...
COP26: Uhuru pushes world leaders to do more to protect developing countries from adverse effects of climate change
Nov 01, 2021 at 08:22 PM
Speaking during the ongoing COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, President Kenyatta said climate change posed a huge threat to Kenya and Africa as a whole....
