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  • Amnesty International sounds alarm on a watershed moment for international law amid flagrant rule-breaking by governments and corporate actors

    The world is reaping a harvest of terrifying consequences from escalating conflict and the near breakdown of international law, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual The State of the World’s Human Rights report today, delivering an assessment of human rights in 155 countries. Amnesty International also warned that the breakdown of the rule…

  • Women and Girls at the Centre ; The Inequalities of Climate Change

    By Benta Moige Kenya has experienced unprecedented impacts of Climate Change for a while now,  from flooding across the country, especially in the Rift Valley, where rivers have been swelling, breaking banks, displacing hundreds, and destroying livelihoods, to extreme drought in Arid and Semi-Arid areas (ASALs). The consistency of these changes has slowed down the…

  • Go beyond carbon markets at the upcoming climate summit

    Irũngũ Houghton and David Ngira Hosted by the Kenya Government and the African Union Commission, thousands of state and non-state delegates will participate in the inaugural Africa Climate Summit and several parallel public events this coming week. An important moment, the Summit Declaration must announce ambitious, sustainable, and long-lasting climate commitments and avoid the dangerous…

  • Climate change will turn our lives upside down; let’s adapt or perish

    [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the creature of the United Nations charged with collecting and collating scientific,…