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Lynet Otieno

How personal responsibility can save our wildlife

Animals, naturally, move around to find more comfortable places to breed or even lick salt.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

How personal responsibility can save our wildlife

Secret to a healthy nation lies below our feet

Secret to a healthy nation lies below our feet

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

How banks wield power to grow green economy

How banks wield power to grow green economy

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Support rural women to build climate resilience

Support rural women to build climate resilience

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

How youth stand to benefit by ending plastic use

Many people have had an unpleasant encounter with plastic. Our livestock’s intestines are messed after feeding on plastic.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

How youth stand to benefit by ending plastic use

It does pay to strengthen safeguards for nature

The efforts have enabled sustainable use of mangrove forests despite glaring threats such as over-harvesting, plastics pollution of the Indian Ocean.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

It does pay to strengthen safeguards for nature

States must be real, genuine about Net Zero pledges

Several giant companies have made similar commitments. Individual commitments also count.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

States must be real, genuine about Net Zero pledges

The stench of death from drought will choke us

Towards the end of 2021, the UN’s ReliefWeb had shown a worrying trend, with little or no rainfall in parts of Marsabit.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

The stench of death from drought will choke us

Finally media down to earth, report on climate

Many newsrooms and individual journalists are back to reality, literally taking the climate bull by its horns through awareness creation.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Finally media down to earth, report on climate

Why bowsers at burial sites are an attraction for thirsty villagers

Guests from afar seem perturbed by the activities at the “water point”.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Why bowsers at burial sites are an attraction for thirsty villagers

On loss and damage, don't wait for Cairo COP27

Loss and damage is a term used in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change processes to refer to negative effects of weather events.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

On loss and damage, don't wait for Cairo COP27

Residents forced to disturb the dead to evade nature's wrath

People displaced by floods are invading abandoned homes. Sex is becoming a luxury for married couples in camps.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Residents forced to disturb the dead to evade nature's wrath

Include persons with disability in climate action plans

The chances of a person living with a disability dying because they are incapacitated or were not able to move fast enough are higher

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Include persons with disability in climate action plans

Double loss for women as floods wash away joy, pride, livelihood

For many a woman, the flooding in 2019 and 2020 that saw them displaced also snatched their financial muscle, and pride.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Double loss for women as floods wash away joy, pride, livelihood

Nyando floods destroyed our lives, made us poor, homeless

When her grandchild died, she begged for space to bury him, as her home was still inaccessible.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Nyando floods destroyed our lives, made us poor, homeless

Why State must tackle climate induced clashes

This week’s attacks over grazing land, which cost seven human lives in Meru, may pass as tribal chaos; or just politics. But it is unacceptable.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Why State must tackle climate induced clashes

‘A’ for effort in Kenya’s push for climate action

Several homes in rural areas are slowly shifting from kerosene to solar-powered lighting, saving many from in-house pollution.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

‘A’ for effort in Kenya’s push for climate action

Stop making plastic bottles trendy for villagers

Let's fully return to the reusable glass bottles for soda and water. This will reduce littering and pollution.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Stop making plastic bottles trendy for villagers

How many must die before bridges get budgets?

In fact, waiting areas will be constructed to ensure people have somewhere to rest as they wait for waters to subside if the river floods again.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

How many must die before bridges get budgets?

Climate: Women can be positive change agents

Clearly, even where women head households, they do not have express rights to land they occupy.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Climate: Women can be positive change agents

Climate crisis will bring more risks to banks

The one-year ultimatum by the Central Bank of Kenya for lenders to integrate climate risk management in their operations is timely.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Climate crisis will bring more risks to banks

No time to lick COP26 wounds, keep walking

Reports that desperate parents are giving out their daughters for marriage in exchange for dowry, paid in bits, are disturbing.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

No time to lick COP26 wounds, keep walking

Gender equality the secret to fast climate action

Giving them more rights to land, especially the communally owned, will ensure they are involved in decisions on how the same is used.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Gender equality the secret to fast climate action

Kenya to COP26: Prioritise Blue Economy in talks

Kenya has called upon nations to prioritise the ocean action agenda at the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow to save biodiversity.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Kenya to COP26: Prioritise Blue Economy in talks

Leaders 'lied' at Summit start; what they meant 'is in discussion rooms'

A lot of what was said at the COP26 summit at the beginning of the conference was not reflected in the negotiation rooms

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Leaders 'lied' at Summit start; what they meant 'is in discussion rooms'

Lies that bind at COP, with ever shifting goal posts

At the COP15 held in Copenhagen in 2009, parties agreed on yearly mobilisation of $100 billon by lead polluters to be used to address climate change.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Lies that bind at COP, with ever shifting goal posts

Civic education key in locally-led climate action

We were adapting to hotter days and newer diets. We fell ill more often, courtesy of nutritional and environmental changes.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Civic education key in locally-led climate action

The good, bad and ugly of EA’s crude oil project

The grand East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) this week featured in a global multi-faith event dubbed ‘Faiths 4 Climate Justice’

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

The good, bad and ugly of EA’s crude oil project

We know what the Creator demands, let's do it

But today, being a human is an embarrassment. We have sunk so low in our quest for money and forgotten nature’s goodness.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

We know what the Creator demands, let's do it

Let’s just agree, Africa is a special case

The UK had said CoP26 would be a turning point, as 2020 marked the beginning of Decade of Climate Action.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Let’s just agree, Africa is a special case

Climate smart agriculture focus in food security effort

Kenya is expected to resume exporting mangoes to the EU starting September, following an eight-year self-imposed ban after a fruit fly outbreak.

By Lynet Otieno 2 years ago

Climate smart agriculture focus in food security effort

Kenya needs billions for climate change projects

Some of the climate hazards the updated NDCs mentions as being dangerous to Kenyans are droughts, floods, heatwaves, and rising sea waters.

By Lynet Otieno 3 years ago

Kenya needs billions for climate change projects

Journalists, non-media stakeholders engage in launch of environmental reporting award

Democracy, said Dr Murombedzi, is dependent on the information that goes out to policy makers and the citizens.

By Lynet Otieno 3 years ago

Journalists, non-media stakeholders engage in launch of environmental reporting award

State urged to play its part in rallying everyone to protect natural resources

“Our human life is dependent on nature, and abusing it is digging a grave for ourselves,” said Mr Ombisi.

By Lynet Otieno 3 years ago

State urged to play its part in rallying everyone to protect natural resources

Africa urged to use home grown experts to set feasible goals

Africa has a long way to go in the realization of the strategies to implement the Paris Agreement

By Lynet Otieno 4 years ago

Africa urged to use home grown experts to set feasible goals

Africa’s special status push at climate talks

Representatives at Madrid talks say continent needs help to deal with climate change.

By Lynet Otieno 4 years ago

Africa’s special status push at climate talks

Act now, or you are doomed, Africa told

Climate change conference tells African leaders to act before it is too late for Africa

By Lynet Otieno 4 years ago

Act now, or you are doomed, Africa told

Tobiko says forests are being cut at high rate

Regional conference outlines successes in greenhouse gas emission fight

By Lynet Otieno 4 years ago

Tobiko says forests are being cut at high rate

Kenya’s climate justice activist wins

Award comes only months after Mwenda was named one of the world’s top 100 most influential people on climate policy by Apolitical

By Lynet Otieno 4 years ago

Kenya’s climate justice activist wins

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