It's timely to have a Health Day at climate talks
There are opportunities to combine efforts to tackle health and climate problems. Efforts to mitigate climate change must not slow down.
By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago
It's timely to have a Health Day at climate talks
Rising temperatures, rising injustice for victims of abuse
As climate change worsens, so is discrimination against teenage mothers in Marsabit. Abused women and girls have nowhere to run to as the county is yet to complete a rescue centre.
By Lynet Otieno 3 months ago
Rising temperatures, rising injustice for victims of abuse
Plan to prevent further loss of lives to El Nino
Now at least four people, including a KCSE candidate, have been killed. Villages are marooned and thousands displaced. Without roads, it will be difficult to get food and other aid to the affected.
By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago
Plan to prevent further loss of lives to El Nino
Reproductive health taking a hit as climate crisis deepens
No one thinks about sharing information on reproductive health or distributing condoms in camps because it is not a priority need, food is.
By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago
Reproductive health taking a hit as climate crisis deepens
Oil giant should respect East Africans' culture
Different people have varied spiritual and cultural beliefs. In some cases, the exhumation of a corpse, if it must happen, comes with rituals.
By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago
Oil giant should respect East Africans' culture
Don't let climate disasters push girls to perverts
The women who suffer effects of climate change in the severest ways are sometimes from communities perennially dealing with extreme poverty, massive crop failure, low literacy levels
By Lynet Otieno 4 months ago
Don't let climate disasters push girls to perverts
Stop hypocrisy in PR tree planting among firms
Another evil is gaining PR showing environmental responsible firms planting trees, in a ploy to divert attention from their harmful activities (greenwashing).
By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago
Stop hypocrisy in PR tree planting among firms
National Farmers' Day will step up climate action
As the world heads to Dubai for COP28 climate talks, farmers play a critical role in climate action, even as they sustain the global population and amplify food security.
By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago
National Farmers' Day will step up climate action
How is Africa to juggle debt and climate burdens?
Africa is not acting victim! It needs space to juggle development, climate extremes, food insecurity and health challenges. Let Africa breathe!
By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago
How is Africa to juggle debt and climate burdens?
Make teachers, students climate action agents
Teachers help nations achieve key long-term goals. We have one on climate change that poses significant risks to food security through crop failure, aided by unpredictable rain patterns.
By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago
Make teachers, students climate action agents
COP28 must deliver tangible outcomes on water
Access to clean water is a significant challenge, as climate change, population growth and urbanisation put pressure on available sources.
By Lynet Otieno 5 months ago
COP28 must deliver tangible outcomes on water
Stop making Africa beg for what is rightfully hers
Several African nations have policies and regulations enabling climate action. Many have ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago
Stop making Africa beg for what is rightfully hers
How prepared are we for oncoming killer El Nino?
Loss and damage in property and infrastructure run into billions of dollars, and it might take ages to rebuild, especially for the poor.
By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago
How prepared are we for oncoming killer El Nino?
Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis
The interest in agriculture is unavoidable, as it is the backbone of many economies. But how do we deal with nuances around certain foods or climate action?
By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago
Mix science, local beliefs to tame climate crisis
What's construction industry doing at climate fete?
The construction industry is one to focus on during the ACW and ACS, since it has done so much in offering solutions to the climate crisis as well.
By Lynet Otieno 6 months ago
What's construction industry doing at climate fete?
Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit
Time is up for the end of such stories as children being married off on the African coasts because their parents can no longer feed them, having lost all their crops and livestock to drought.
By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago
Africa, sing a new song after this Climate Summit
What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?
The huge losses and damage have largely been blamed on inefficiency on part of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, which did not activate an outdoor siren system
By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago
What if Maui in Hawaii was an island in Africa?
Youth must earn their place in renewable energy
The youth are already vocal against fossil fuel extraction in Africa, especially with East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Tilenga and Kingfisher in Uganda projects.
By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago
Youth must earn their place in renewable energy
Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis
Just as PWD require more help during disasters, their representation in decision making tables locally and globally, as well as actual climate action within their ability must increase.
By Lynet Otieno 7 months ago
Increase focus, action for PWDs in climate crisis
Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort
Collaboration between governments, NGOs and communities can pave the way for a brighter and greener future for Africa and the world.
By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago
Tackling global boiling needs wittier local effort
Yes, enhance food security with women in mind
Malnutrition of children and pregnant women is one of the immediate problems visible, and which may need urgent intervention. We saw this coming.
By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago
Yes, enhance food security with women in mind
Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm
Using improved technology to increase food production will help increase adaptation to climate change, tackle poverty, hunger, poor nutrition, gender inequalities, and even forestall conflict.
By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago
Take hoes to museum and get machines to farm
Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'
Even if government has measures to control logging, cartels who feed the endemic corruption beasts in Kenya, will not sleep.
By Lynet Otieno 8 months ago
Walk the talk on viable solutions to new 'normal'
Forest climate action must be for and by people
According to UNESCO, Kakamega Forest earns locals at least Sh100 million yearly, though including from illegal activities such as charcoal burning and poaching.
By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago
Forest climate action must be for and by people
'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis
As the world celebrates the "Day Against Desertification and Drought", let's test, taste and see how a woman can use "Her land, her rights" to tackle the climate crisis.
By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago
'Her land, her rights' a remedy for climate crisis
Why climate change pokes its nose in good times
Humans are continuing fossil fuels extraction that the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has highlighted as the major cause of global warming.
By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago
Why climate change pokes its nose in good times
Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks
The lack of understanding on why the cost of living is rising and what role climate change plays in the economy that is heavily reliant on rain-fed agriculture, is dangerous.
By Lynet Otieno 9 months ago
Simplify climate crisis to convince rural folks
How biodiversity loss affects our mental health
Human beings relate, consciously or unconsciously with nature. We are created to love, and expect love, the unspoken sometimes holding the best of places in our hearts.
By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago
How biodiversity loss affects our mental health
Nairobi can champion climate action creatively
If you were in Nairobi in the 1990s, you know how different things are today, from transport to housing, pollution, population density, solid and waste water management.
By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago
Nairobi can champion climate action creatively
Don't make Mother Nature misdirect her anger
As children of Mother Earth, many are the nations paying for the sins of their siblings responsible for global warming.
By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago
Don't make Mother Nature misdirect her anger
Victims of fossil fuel damage deserve payment
Unlike big businesses, the most vulnerable populations, their property and businesses are not insured.
By Lynet Otieno 10 months ago
Victims of fossil fuel damage deserve payment
Let's make the best out of climate change action
The opportunity in the current flooding disasters lies in tripling efforts to harvest the rain water now.
By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago
Let's make the best out of climate change action
Choose banks that invest in our planet
Researchers have periodically looked into banks' role in global warming, and just last week, a report dubbed "Banking on Climate Chaos 2023" revealed reluctance to make things right.
By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago
Choose banks that invest in our planet
Growing trees is divine, no matter your faith
Trees are precious! There are moments I have sat alone under a tree and felt like I had company. The likes of whistling pine even "sing" when it is windy.
By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago
Growing trees is divine, no matter your faith
Scary IPCC projections must not dampen spirits
One of the most convincing justifications for the choice of the man with one leg in fossil fuels industry and the other in renewable energy sounded like setting a 'thief' to catch a thief.
By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago
Scary IPCC projections must not dampen spirits
Demand climate justice as you do human rights
African organisations must enlighten people on climate change, including opportunities in addressing the existential problem
By Lynet Otieno 11 months ago
Demand climate justice as you do human rights
Your big or small action determines water quality
March 21 was World Forest Day. People planted trees to, among other reasons, re-equip depleted water towers and invite rains again. Then came Wednesday, March 22 World Water Day.
By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago
Your big or small action determines water quality
Critical link between rain and quality of milk
Milk is a source of nutrition to a large vulnerable population consisting of infants, children, pregnant women, invalids, and the elderly.
By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago
Critical link between rain and quality of milk
Pray yes, but climate crisis calls for right policy
The government must increase pace on just transition to renewable energy, invest in capacity building on the problem at hand for maximum community-led and nature-based solutions.
By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago
Pray yes, but climate crisis calls for right policy
Entrust women with climate action, they know better
Many African cultures place women in the kitchen, where they worry about the wellbeing of the entire family even at their weakest moment.
By Lynet Otieno 1 year ago
Entrust women with climate action, they know better
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