The Africa Forward Summit, held in Nairobi on May 11–12, 2026, represents a seismic shift in the architecture of international environmental law. For the legal community, this summit serves as
Introduction One of the principles underpinned under Article 3 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change “The Convention” is that Parties should protect the climate system for the
Over the weekend of May 3, 2026, the global community celebrated World Press Freedom Day, culminating in the major international conference in Lusaka, Zambia, under the crucial theme of shaping
For much of the post-independent era, environmental harm caused by industry was treated as the unavoidable price of progress. Factories discharged effluent into rivers, extractive operations scarred landscapes, and communities
The Polluter Pays principle is a widely accepted environmental law principle that places liability for environmental harm on those responsible for it. At the same time, the global push towards
When people think about wildlife trafficking, images of ivory tusks, rhino horns or exotic birds often come to mind. Rarely do we imagine ants being at the center of an
Introduction On 27th November 2025, the High Court of Kenya at Machakos presided over by Justice Rhoda Rutto decriminalized the old-age practice of selling, sharing and exchanging of unregistered, uncertified
The recent rains experienced last week and early this week across the country have exposed the country’s incapacity on matters disaster preparedness. What a troubling paradox: a country that desperately
The term “greenwashing” was coined by Jay Westerveld, an environmentalist, in 1986. This is after he had taken a trip to Fiji in 1983 and during his stay at a
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