Search Results for: World Environment Day 2025
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Paul Russo | World Environment Day Provides an Opportunity for Africa to Accelerate Economic Transition
On June 5, the world marked World Environment Day under the theme “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future.” It is a call to look at the natural world as a blueprint in the fight against climate change. Across the African continent, nature is communicating through record droughts, devastating floods, and shifting agricultural seasons. For decades, Africa has been…
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Kenya Seeks KSh 247 Million Budget Increase for Environment and Climate Programs
Kenya’s State Department for Environment and Climate Change is seeking a KSh 247 million increase in its recurrent budget for the 2025/26 financial year, even as its development budget faces a KSh 231 million reduction – a contradiction that officials warn could undermine the country’s environmental and climate commitments. The Supplementary Estimates for FY 2025/26 were presented by Environment and…
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ENVIRONMENT
CNN’s Call to Earth Day Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
On November 6th, 2025, CNN will mark the fifth edition of its global Call to Earth Day initiative, celebrating how people and cultures come together to protect the planet. Partnering with schools, individuals, and organisations across the world, CNN will use its global multiplatform presence for a day of action to raise awareness of environmental issues and to engage with conservation education. The…
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Edgar Kitur | How Food Delivery is Powering Inclusion and Enterprise in Kenya This World Food Day
Food connects us, through culture, community, and increasingly through economic opportunity. World Food Day 2025 is calling for global collaboration in creating a peaceful, sustainable, prosperous, and food-secure future. We must look not only at what we eat, but how access and inclusion are built into the food system. In Kenya, online food delivery is no longer a novelty. According…
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World Vision Kenya Calls for Collective Action Against Plastic Pollution
As the world commemorates World Environment Day 2025 under the theme “Putting an End to Plastic Pollution”, World Vision Kenya (WVK) has joined the call for urgent and collective action to address the escalating plastic pollution crisis. This is not just an environmental concern — it is a threat to the health, safety, and future of our children. The Depth…
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ENVIRONMENT
NCBA Leads Mangrove Planting and Coastal Cleanup in Kwale to Mark World Environment Day
NCBA, in partnership with Boreka Group, the Kenya Forest Service, Kwale County Government, NEMA, and local communities, led the planting of 3,000 mangrove trees and a coastal cleanup in Diani, Kwale County, to celebrate World Environment Day 2025 under the theme “Ending Plastic Pollution.” Now in its third year, NCBA’s collaboration with Boreka has seen 180,000 trees planted in Kitui…
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UK startup Naturbeads secures £7.8m funding to address worldwide microplastic pollution
UK startup Naturbeads has secured £7.8 million Series A funding round to further develop its pioneering technology that addresses worldwide microplastic pollution. Eos Advisory led the round alongside existing investor Progress Tech Transfer, and new investors CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I Fund, PI-NB, and Paragon Capital Management in Singapore through its early-stage VC fund, Paragon Ventures I.…
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Bella Tobing: What Businesses Can Learn from Japan’s ‘Sho-Sho-Sei’ to Beat Plastic Pollution
Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters our oceans. As we mark World Environment Day 2025 with the rallying cry Beat Plastic Pollution, it’s clear that we need more than corporate pledges – we need a fundamental rethinking of how solutions are designed, built and consumed. At Epson, our continued commitment to sustainability is inspired by an ancient Japanese…
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ENERGY
Mombasa Port Receives First LNG-Powered Container Ship
The Port of Mombasa has received its first large gas-powered container ship, in a docking Kenya Ports Authority is describing as a milestone for the country’s green maritime ambitions. The vessel, CMA CGM Adventure, called at the port on Monday running primarily on Liquefied Natural Gas rather than the heavy fuel oil that has powered cargo shipping for decades. Built…
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African Debt Managers Urged to Embed Climate Finance at Core of Sovereign Borrowing Strategy
African sovereign debt managers must integrate climate finance into the architecture of national borrowing strategies or risk entrenching a cycle of low investment, weakened growth, and compounding climate vulnerability. That was the central message to emerge from the Second African Forum on Sovereign Finance, which concluded in Addis Ababa on Friday. Jointly organised by the UN Economic Commission for Africa…
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