Towards energy conservation: Jiko revolution saving Kenya’s forests

This month, the world’s attention will be focused on Paris during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC COP 21. The Paris meet is critical because the world is hoping that important instruments will be created to legally bind nations toward maintaining a 20C global warming. Such would be a bold step that strongly demonstrates commitment towards curbing the mad rise of global warming and its attendant effects on climate, culture and food security, among others.

And while the crème de la crème of the global politics, scholars, policy makers, financiers, industrialists hit the city of many lights, here in Kenya small and sure steps are working magic towards curbing emissions, protecting forest cover and giving households, especially girls and women some dignity.