Climate Action Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa

Climate Action Africa launches initiative to develop climate risk management framework with AECF

Claudio Volonte (Baastel), Florence Nyanjihia (AECF staff), Christine Atego (Sunken CEO), and Justine Miller (Sunken Business Development Manager). Picture was taken at Sunken's office in Nairobi. AECF is providing support to Sunken's work on manufacturing and marketing clean cookstoves, through AECF's Kakuma Kalobeyei Challenge Fund (in support of refugees hosted by the government of Kenya). People traditionally use wood or charcoal for cooking but Sunken and AECF are building a factory in this refugee camp. The project has improvements in health through air quality, forest protection (reduction of use of wood) and generates employment.

As temperatures rise globally, extreme climate events such as droughts, cyclones, floods and heatwaves continue to negatively affect the entire African continent’s economy and society, particularly the key agricultural sector – which is having an acute impact on small businesses across the continent.

World Environment Day: A reflection on Climate Action in Africa

As we celebrate World Environment Day globally, I want to share with you my reflection on Climate Action in Africa and how its contribution to climate action is interwoven in this year’s theme “Only One Earth”.

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