Posts by Big3Africa Desk

In Logorate village, nestled within the vast, arid landscape of Samburu County, Hellen Nasha aged 46, tends to her farm, a striking contrast to the dusty plains surrounding it. Her 9.5-acre plot is teeming with life—lush rows of vegetables flourish under the semi-arid sun. Once a pastoralist relying on livestock like most of her Samburu community, Hellen is embracing farming to combat the devastating effects of climate change.

World leaders are finally on the verge of tackling our planet’s most pressing environmental problem of our time, reduction on plastic products manufacturing.

The Fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5), tasked with formulating modalities for the gradual end to plastic pollution, ended in utter disappointment after negotiators failed to agree on a landmark treaty.

A critical negotiation to craft the world’s first global plastic treaty is underway in Busan, South Korea. Still, the likelihood of a final agreement to end plastic pollution seems increasingly slim. Delegates attending the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5.2) conference are deeply divided, prompting discussions about extending the negotiation process.

By Melisa Mong'ina Waste Pickers play a crucial role in recycling and managing waste, yet…

With two weeks of talks on global climate finance scheduled to end on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan, many developing countries are left frustrated at what they believed was a lack of progress in the first week. Poorer countries want at least $1tn a year to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather.

Policymakers are not holding back their feelings that, more than any other issue, the production of plastic has divided INC participants. Some argue that no government will attack the profitable hyper-consumption paradigm fueled by the pivot from petroleum as fuel to petroleum as a source for raw materials for plastic product manufacturing (plastics is the solid form of petroleum), and a lot of compromise will have to be made to come out with a treaty.