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Solar and Wind to Overtake Coal as World’s Top Electricity Source by 2026 – IEA

Peter Ngare August 21, 2025

According to the agency’s latest forecast, this transition is being driven by solar and wind that are growing faster than any other power sources, driven by falling technology costs, government policies, and rising public demand for climate action.

Green Finance

Kenya Leads Africa with First-Ever REDD+ Registry to Save Forests and Earn from Carbon

Peter Ngare August 19, 2025

REDD+ stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation. It is a global framework that encourages countries to protect forests and, in return, earn carbon credits. These credits can then be sold in international or local markets, bringing in money for conservation and community development.

Tech & Energy

E-Mobility Accelerates in East Africa

Peter Ngare August 6, 2025

East Africa is shifting gears in its journey toward a cleaner, greener future. In a major milestone for the continent’s low-carbon public transport ambitions, Kenyan e-mobility startup BasiGo has announced the deployment of its 100th electric bus, now serving routes across Kenya and Rwanda.

Climate Change

Climate Change Fuels Mental Health Crisis Among Rural Kenyan Women

Peter Ngare August 4, 2025

Women in informal settings were found to be 10.8 percentage points more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms than those in better-equipped households. The ripple effects of poor mental health, researchers warn, stretch beyond individuals and threaten the social and economic stability of entire families.

Climate Change

Kenya Climate Resilience Strategy Faces Scrutiny as Key Counties Miss Funding

Peter Ngare August 1, 2025

Environmentalists and climate justice advocates have raised questions about how Kenya frames its climate resilience strategy after the counties of Kiambu, Nairobi and Mombasa were excluded from the latest disbursement of KES 11.2 billion in climate financing under Kenya’s Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) programme.

Climate Change Food Systems

Drought Puts Food Energy and Water at Risk in Kenya and the Horn of Africa

Peter Ngare July 29, 2025

The new data shows that more than 90 million people in Eastern and Southern Africa are now facing acute hunger, including parts of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), where failed rains have decimated livestock and crops for three consecutive seasons.

Climate Change

Landmark ICJ Climate Ruling and Its Impact on Africa and Kenya

Peter Ngare July 23, 2025

In a landmark development for global climate justice, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has delivered an advisory opinion affirming that states have binding legal obligations under international law to protect the environment and address climate change.

Conservation

Kenyan Fig Trees Turn Themselves to Stone

Peter Ngare July 22, 2025

Kenyan fig trees have been found to have the ability turn part of themselves into stone, helping them to store carbon from the air, improves the soil around them, all while still growing fruit.

Conservation

Tanzania’s Democracy Decline Raises Alarms for Conservation and Climate Action in East Africa

Peter Ngare June 16, 2025

The erosion of civil liberties, growing authoritarianism, and repression of local communities, particularly Indigenous ones, are increasingly undermining conservation efforts. Nowhere is this more visible than in the Serengeti, where the government’s recent crackdowns on the Maasai people, who have lived in harmony with wildlife for generations, have drawn global condemnation.

Climate Change

Climate Change Sparks Locust Surge Driving Massive Crop Losses in East Africa

Peter Ngare June 16, 2025

The 2020 locust invasion in East Africa, which affected Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia the hardest, was one of the worst in 70 years. It put over 20 million people at risk of acute hunger and caused economic losses estimated at US$8.5 billion across Yemen and East Africa.