Alberto Leny

Nairobi

Columnist at People Daily Kenya

Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Climate crisis deepens as wildfires become new driver of global deforestation

6 days ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

| Forests remain at the centre of the climate crisis as record temperature rise and global warming threaten their survival, yet they are vital to humanity and nature’s very own survival.
Brazil’s diplomacy mission to break climate talks stalemate

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

| With just six months before the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP30), host Brazil is on a mission to secure, through diplomacy, agreements on two issues that were left unresolved at COP29. The tense negotiations at the climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, failed to agree on a just transition from fossil fuels and the global stocktake of government climate action.
Invasive alien species pose risks to livelihoods, wildlife

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

| One of the key drivers of biodiversity loss identified by scientists again during last week’s International Day for Biological Diversity is invasive alien species (IAS). The focus of this year’s biodiversity day was on the linkages between the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), as two universal agendas that must be pursued in tandem.
Deportations betray Dar’s legitimacy crisis

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

Tanzania’s deportation of Kenya’s former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and former Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua has dealt a severe blow to democracy in the East African Community (EAC). Mutunga, Karua and several Kenyan lawyers and human rights activists, including Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan Agather Atuhaire, with the latter two claiming they were tortured, are victims of Tanzania’s high-handed democratic failings.
Nature’s workers face threat of extinction in global warming

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

For thousands of years, bees have benefited humanity, providing wax, royal jelly, propolis (resin), and the golden honey loved and valued around the world for its nutritional benefits. Last week, humanity celebrated World Bee Day on 20 May. Bees also play a vital role in keeping people and the planet healthy; their products and even venom have been used in traditional medicine and to treat ailments. They are, however, best known as pollinators.
Forests, people and planet date gives communities priority

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

Last week, humanity celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity, recognising that agrifood sectors – crop and livestock production, fisheries and aquaculture, and forestry – are the foundation for nature’s sustainability. Tomorrow, a critical meeting of experts, scientists, practitioners, policymakers and grassroots leaders, including the youth from around the world, will discuss the fate of forests as vital ecosystems in biodiversity amid the climate crisis.
Africa’s growth challenges mount amid climate crisis

1 week ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

| Africa faces monumental development challenges, yet the continent has tremendous potential for transformation to lift its people out of poverty and underdevelopment. What ails Africa and what are the solutions to the myriad challenges facing the continent? What are the prospects of salvation for its tormented citizens with Africa at the crossroads of its development agenda?
Momentum builds to COP30, uniting global climate action

2 weeks ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

Momentum is building to November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, with two key events this week and next month focused on global climate action. Recognising the evolving needs and new challenges for the climate agenda, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has introduced the new Climate Weeks, dialogues for ambition and implementation of climate action.
Agrifood systems heroes of global biodiversity day

2 weeks ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

| Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity, as humanity faces the sobering reality that only five years are left to implement global agreements to protect nature and deliver on the 2030 Agenda. The United Nations proclaimed May 22 to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
Why Raila is key to 2027 presidential poll win

2 weeks ago | peopledaily.digital | Alberto Leny

With just over two years before the next General Election, Kenya’s political barometer is indicating rising temperatures as the countdown begins in earnest. The political landscape has shifted dramatically since the last election, although the main players in the 2022 vote are still very much on the scene, all eyeing the big prize.