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Lynet Otieno

Recognise children needs in climate change response

UNICEF statistics show more than 1 billion children "are at an acute risk of climate disasters," with another 4.2 billion expected to be born in the next 30 years.

By Lynet Otieno 20 days ago

Recognise children needs in climate change response

Let's tackle food wastage for a friendlier climate

Let's tackle food wastage for a friendlier climate

By Lynet Otieno 27 days ago

Gender equality a viable solution to deforestation

Gender equality a viable solution to deforestation

By Lynet Otieno 1 month ago

Victims of climate crises have legal rights

Victims of climate crises have legal rights

By Lynet Otieno 1 month ago

Why we need global unity against plastic threat

The most significant contributor to pollution remains single-use plastics. Only a small percentage of plastic waste is recycled globally.

By Lynet Otieno 1 month ago

Why we need global unity against plastic threat

Embrace practical education to tackle crises

As of 2023, nine of the 10 countries with the lowest literacy rates were African.

By Lynet Otieno 2 months ago

Embrace practical education to tackle crises

Cut glaring gender gap at global climate talks

Countries with higher levels of gender equality tend to ratify better environmental treaties and adopt eco-friendly practices.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Cut glaring gender gap at global climate talks

Green spaces offer solution to heat in urban areas

Since there is no reliable replacement for concrete, especially in the Global South, a deliberate decision to leave room for green spaces during construction will do.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Green spaces offer solution to heat in urban areas

Banks can make the world take a healthy path

Banks wield power in ensuring environmental safety. As a result, the industry has been a target of several campaigns, being at the center of the tug-of-war between profits and morality.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Banks can make the world take a healthy path

Make farming more appealing to tame poverty

Trouble was however how to handle relatives seeking help to get job opportunities away from home. Many asked for "kazi yoyote tu" (any job), assuming one had necessary connections.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

Make farming more appealing to tame poverty

How farmers can help to fight climate change

The panacea to agriculture's contribution to the climate crisis must be sustainable since an increase in global warming will hamper the achievement of the so needed sector's benefits.

By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago

How farmers can help to fight climate change

Go green with festivities and gift wrappings

You can opt for eco-friendly decorations, reusable and recyclable packaging, or creative and reusable wrapping solutions and significantly reduce waste and environmental degradation.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Go green with festivities and gift wrappings

Address climate-related losses for sustainability

Policies that support the creation of alternative livelihoods and provide social safety nets for displaced populations are crucial.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Address climate-related losses for sustainability

Celebrities as catalysts for climate action

Their involvement may inspire faster policy change, as they bring attention to challenges that might otherwise go unnoticed.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Celebrities as catalysts for climate action

Celebrities' role as catalysts for climate action

Their involvement may inspire faster policy change, as they bring attention to challenges that might otherwise go unnoticed.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Celebrities' role as catalysts for climate action

It's timely to have a Health Day at climate talks

There are opportunities to combine efforts to tackle health and climate problems. Efforts to mitigate climate change must not slow down.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

It's timely to have a Health Day at climate talks

Rising temperatures, rising injustice for victims of abuse

As climate change worsens, so is discrimination against teenage mothers in Marsabit. Abused women and girls have nowhere to run to as the county is yet to complete a rescue centre.

By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago

Rising temperatures, rising injustice for victims of abuse

Plan to prevent further loss of lives to El Nino

Now at least four people, including a KCSE candidate, have been killed. Villages are marooned and thousands displaced. Without roads, it will be difficult to get food and other aid to the affected.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Plan to prevent further loss of lives to El Nino

Reproductive health taking a hit as climate crisis deepens

No one thinks about sharing information on reproductive health or distributing condoms in camps because it is not a priority need, food is.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Reproductive health taking a hit as climate crisis deepens

Oil giant should respect East Africans' culture

Different people have varied spiritual and cultural beliefs. In some cases, the exhumation of a corpse, if it must happen, comes with rituals.

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Oil giant should respect East Africans' culture

Don't let climate disasters push girls to perverts

The women who suffer effects of climate change in the severest ways are sometimes from communities perennially dealing with extreme poverty, massive crop failure, low literacy levels

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Don't let climate disasters push girls to perverts

Stop hypocrisy in PR tree planting among firms

Another evil is gaining PR showing environmental responsible firms planting trees, in a ploy to divert attention from their harmful activities (greenwashing).

By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago

Stop hypocrisy in PR tree planting among firms

National Farmers' Day will step up climate action

As the world heads to Dubai for COP28 climate talks, farmers play a critical role in climate action, even as they sustain the global population and amplify food security.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

National Farmers' Day will step up climate action

How is Africa to juggle debt and climate burdens?

Africa is not acting victim! It needs space to juggle development, climate extremes, food insecurity and health challenges. Let Africa breathe!

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

How is Africa to juggle debt and climate burdens?

Make teachers, students climate action agents

Teachers help nations achieve key long-term goals. We have one on climate change that poses significant risks to food security through crop failure, aided by unpredictable rain patterns.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

Make teachers, students climate action agents

COP28 must deliver tangible outcomes on water

Access to clean water is a significant challenge, as climate change, population growth and urbanisation put pressure on available sources.

By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago

COP28 must deliver tangible outcomes on water

Stop making Africa beg for what is rightfully hers

Several African nations have policies and regulations enabling climate action. Many have ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Stop making Africa beg for what is rightfully hers

How prepared are we for oncoming killer El Nino?

Loss and damage in property and infrastructure run into billions of dollars, and it might take ages to rebuild, especially for the poor.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

How prepared are we for oncoming killer El Nino?

Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis

The interest in agriculture is unavoidable, as it is the backbone of many economies. But how do we deal with nuances around certain foods or climate action?

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis

What's construction industry doing at climate fete?

The construction industry is one to focus on during the ACW and ACS, since it has done so much in offering solutions to the climate crisis as well.

By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago

What's construction industry doing at climate fete?

Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit

Time is up for the end of such stories as children being married off on the African coasts because their parents can no longer feed them, having lost all their crops and livestock to drought.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit

What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?

The huge losses and damage have largely been blamed on inefficiency on part of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, which did not activate an outdoor siren system

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?

Youth must earn their place in renewable energy

The youth are already vocal against fossil fuel extraction in Africa, especially with East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Tilenga and Kingfisher in Uganda projects.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Youth must earn their place in renewable energy

Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis

Just as PWD require more help during disasters, their representation in decision making tables locally and globally, as well as actual climate action within their ability must increase.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis

Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort

Collaboration between governments, NGOs and communities can pave the way for a brighter and greener future for Africa and the world.

By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago

Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort

Yes, enhance food security with women in mind

Malnutrition of children and pregnant women is one of the immediate problems visible, and which may need urgent intervention. We saw this coming.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Yes, enhance food security with women in mind

Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm

Using improved technology to increase food production will help increase adaptation to climate change, tackle poverty, hunger, poor nutrition, gender inequalities, and even forestall conflict.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm

Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'

Even if government has measures to control logging, cartels who feed the endemic corruption beasts in Kenya, will not sleep.

By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago

Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'

Forest climate action must be for and by people

According to UNESCO, Kakamega Forest earns locals at least Sh100 million yearly, though including from illegal activities such as charcoal burning and poaching.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Forest climate action must be for and by people

'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis

As the world celebrates the "Day Against Desertification and Drought", let's test, taste and see how a woman can use "Her land, her rights" to tackle the climate crisis.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis

Why climate change pokes its nose in good times

Humans are continuing fossil fuels extraction that the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has highlighted as the major cause of global warming.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Why climate change pokes its nose in good times

Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks

The lack of understanding on why the cost of living is rising and what role climate change plays in the economy that is heavily reliant on rain-fed agriculture, is dangerous.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks

How biodiversity loss affects our mental health

Human beings relate, consciously or unconsciously with nature. We are created to love, and expect love, the unspoken sometimes holding the best of places in our hearts.

By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago

How biodiversity loss affects our mental health

Nairobi can champion climate action creatively

If you were in Nairobi in the 1990s, you know how different things are today, from transport to housing, pollution, population density, solid and waste water management.

By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago

Nairobi can champion climate action creatively

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