Road to COP27: Accelerating climate action to save our one planet

KenGen Chief Executive Officer Rebecca Miano. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

During this year World Environment Day, millions of people around the world came together to commemorate the environment day under the campaign slogan "Only One Earth" led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This was a global call for collective outreach, advocacy, and transformative action to protect and restore our planet.

However, unlike in recent years when this occasion was marked by reports of decreasing number of threats to climate change, the 2022 event was different. Nations like Germany fired up coal plants to avert gas shortage as Russia cut supplies while globally, there was an increase in the use of fossil fuels, reportedly reacting to the Russian-Ukraine war.