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COP29's climate finance deal stab on Africa's back

Increased climate finance is essential in strengthening needs-based adaptation for Africa, enabling countries to seize opportunities for job creation and green.
By Mithika Mwenda 2024-12-01 15:54:35
The latest boost on the project involves development of a fire detection, availing of surveillance and digital radio communication system, supplying of various preventive and firefighting equipment.
By James Wanzala 2024-11-28 11:50:35
Scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane.
By AFP 2024-11-28 09:19:09
Rich nations, historically responsible for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, faced mounting pressure to honour their commitments to financially support developing countries.
By Mactilda Mbenywe 2024-11-25 13:00:00
Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has explained why there has been tree cutting in Karura Forest.
By David Njaaga 2024-11-23 13:36:38
The offer was roundly spurned by countries that need enormous sums to shift their economies to clean energy and build resilience to climate shocks on their doorstep.
By AFP 2024-11-23 11:38:09
Draft deal proposing developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help developing nations fight climate change has drawn criticism from all sides.
By Mactilda Mbenywe 2024-11-23 07:00:00
The much-anticipated draft of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance has landed on the negotiating table at COP29.
By Mactilda Mbenywe 2024-11-22 07:00:00
The Financing Locally Led Climate Action (FLLOCA) has dispersed Kshs12.68 billion to 45 counties and 1,418 wards, making it a trailblazer in financing locally-led climate action.
By Mactilda Mbenywe 2024-11-21 12:36:26
A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as time runs out to strike a finance agreement for developing nations.
By AFP 2024-11-21 09:23:33
A nine-year study published last month found that elephants avoided farms with the ferocious bees 86 per cent of the time during peak crop season.
By AFP 2024-11-20 20:55:00
The first week of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, concluded with frustration over lack of progress on climate finance — a key issue of the summit dubbed the “Finance COP.”
By Mactilda Mbenywe 2024-11-20 12:00:40