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Refrigerated E-Bikes Are Revolutionizing Africa’s Food Supply

Correspondent July 16, 2025

African startups are designing and assembling electric vehicles tailored for local delivery needs. From solar-powered cold chains to pharma-compliant vans, these innovations are cutting costs, reducing emissions, and transforming how goods move across the last mile.

Climate Change

Kenya Set to Host AMCEN in Nairobi

Correspondent July 14, 2025

Africa’s position on the plastics treaty will be announced when the 20th Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-20) commences in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. The Conference meets every two years, except in special circumstances

Green Finance

Kenya’s Mangrove Credits Restore Coasts and Revive Lives

Correspondent July 4, 2025

In Marereni, Kenya, a marine biodiversity credit program by Seatrees and COBEC is restoring mangroves and livelihoods. Through $3 “biodiversity blocks,” locals plant trees, boost incomes, and rebuild coastal resilience. Despite challenges, the project reports high survival rates and rising fish stocks.

Climate Change

Kenya’s Green Credibility in Question as Nairobi Hosts Key Plastics Treaty Talks

Correspondent July 3, 2025

As Nairobi hosts crucial talks on the Global Plastics Treaty, questions are surfacing over Kenya’s true commitment to ending plastic pollution. Despite pushing to host the treaty’s secretariat, the country skipped key global declarations backing a strong, legally binding deal.

Climate Change

Waste Pickers Use Theatre to Push for Justice in Global Plastics Treaty

Correspondent July 2, 2025

🎭 Who Knows It Feels It , waste pickers take the global stage with powerful legislative theatre, demanding inclusion and justice in the plastics treaty talks. From the dumpsites of Nairobi to the halls of UN negotiations, their message is clear: no just transition without us.

Feature

UN Climate Chief Urges Urgent Action as Bonn Talks Stall

Correspondent June 27, 2025

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has voiced frustration at the slow pace of progress at the close of the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB62), warning that parties must “go further, faster, and fairer” if the world is to keep the Paris Agreement goals alive.

Feature

Turning Waste to Wealth with Methane Munching Microbes in Nigeria

Correspondent June 27, 2025

A group of young scientists from the University of Nigeria is leading a bold new experiment to fight climate change—by collecting methane from landfills and converting it into biodegradable plastic using naturally occurring bacteria. In a project blending science, sustainability, and local innovation, the team hopes to turn Nigeria’s waste and methane emissions into valuable solutions for both the environment and economy.

Climate Change Feature

Echoes of Mau Mau in the Trails of Karura Forest

Correspondent June 12, 2025

This is Cinema in Nature, a meeting of forest and film, of memory and movement. And it begins not with lights, camera, action, but with breath, with earth, and with the unshakable rhythm of a nation remembering its roots.

Climate Change

Nigerian Climate Hero Plants 25000 Trees in 24 Hours for World Record

Correspondent June 11, 2025

A Nigerian climate advocate, Michael Odenigbo, may soon find his name in the Guinness World Records, if verification confirms he successfully planted over 25,000 trees in just 24 hours.

Two decades ago, Christine Wangari’s seedlings left Nakuru for Nairobi’s dusty lots. Today, her acacias, crotons, neem, and others help define what is today, the green city under the sun.

Conservation

Meet the Woman who Painted Nairobi Green

Correspondent June 9, 2025

Christine Wangari wraps her arms around the rough trunk of a towering acacia in Michuki Park, Nairobi, her fingers tracing the fissured bark of a tree that two decades ago had been a fragile seedling in her nursery in Nakuru County.