New Report Says Kenya at Carbon Crossroads

By David Njagi
Kenya’s planned development path will more than double its carbon emissions unless efforts are taken to pursue low carbon development, according to an environmental think tank.
Yet the country has high potential for mitigating climate change because it has significant opportunities to use renewable energy, says a report released by the Stockholm Environmental Institute [...]

Copenhagen Deal on Climate Change a Must — Ban Ki-Moon

By Ban Ki-Moon*
The lines were drawn as the industrialized nations of the Group of Eight gathered in Heiligendamm, Germany on 6 June 2007. The forces mustered to fight global warming were divided into competing camps.

Germany and the United Kingdom sought urgent talks on a new climate change treaty, to go into effect when the [...]

Does Copenhagen Signify the Great Leap Forward?

*By Ochieng’ Ogodo
Starting today, Monday, December 7th, the attention of world will be glued to the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark where the United Nations Climate Change summit will be taking place until December 18th. The expectations are both high and low.
The roadmap to Copenhagen has mostly been haggling over the reaching of a legally [...]

Africa Builds United Position on Climate Change

An African Union proposal demanding billions of dollars in compensation for the impacts of climate change is taking shape.
It is time for Africa to aggressively engage with climate change negotiations to ensure its interests are met in the designing of global responses, said African Union (AU) Commission chair Jean Ping.
AU officials say the lack of [...]

Forests and Businesses: Uneasy Bedfellows

By Catherine Sasman
Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale deforestation, The Forest Dialogue has found.
The Forest Dialogue (TFD) is made up of a group of individuals from different regions across the globe that has committed itself to the conservation and sustainable use of forests.
The group has now come out [...]