Search Results for: World Environment Day 2025
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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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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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ENVIRONMENT
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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Kenya’s Crossroads on Genetically Modified Crops: How Delay Turned Science Into a Billion-Shilling Question
Kenya’s hesitation on genetically modified crops has cost the country more than time. According to new data from the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), the five-year regulatory delay in rolling out improved maize, Bt cotton, and disease-resistant potato varieties has cost KSh 20.4 billion in lost production and income. The figure captures a mix of missed harvests, blocked exports, and…
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Ajong Mbapndah | Africa’s Role in Shaping the Global Energy Transition
The global energy system is undergoing rapid change, influenced by environmental concerns, technological advances, shifting geopolitics and evolving consumer patterns. Fossil fuel dependency and centralised infrastructure are increasingly seen as unsustainable, while supply chain vulnerabilities, climate change and energy inequality add urgency to the search for alternatives. Energy investment is projected to reach 3.3 trillion US dollars in 2025, with…
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Peter Odhengo: Counties Rise to Climate Challenge by Enacting Laws That Shape Local Climate Solutions
Kenya has quietly notched a milestone in the fight against climate change. All 47 counties have passed laws supporting climate action and ring-fencing funds in their annual budgets, marking a decisive shift from policy intent to grounded action. This achievement is a rare example of how decentralization can be leveraged to mainstream climate resilience across a highly diverse and devolved…
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Minet Advances 500,000 Tree Initiative with 20,000 New Seedlings Planted
Minet Advances 500,000 Tree Initiative: Minet has edged closer to its large scale reforestation effort of planting 500,000 trees in Kenya by 2030, having sowed 20,000 tree seedlings at the Matathia block of the Uplands Forest in Lari Constituency, Kiambu County. This has brought the total number of trees planted by the firm to 46,000 over the past three years,…
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