The tree seedling sellers have stuck to the trade despite threats from the city expansion, driven by the passion to keep it green. Nairobi is also where the Restore Africa Programme, the world’s largest farmer-led land restoration program,was launched in May 2022
It’s been a big year for the Alliance. New Members, new Fellows, new Partners, new announcements – 2022 has been a year of massive growth and expansion. Not to mention a new look! In April 2022 we officially launched Landscape Partnership Asia with AFoCO and CIFOR-ICRAF at the XV World Forestry Congress held in Seoul.This…
It seems that getting to COP is never without its challenges and after hurdling mandated hotel prices, scouring for blue zone passes and even convincing our Ambassador, Irene Ojuok, to do it all again (following last year’s debacle) – we’re on our way! COP27 is being posited as the action COP. Egypt’s COP27 presidency vision…
Following the massive success of the launch of Restore Africa in Kenya, the Alliance held the African Land Restoration Forum in Uganda in June. Designed to bring together key stakeholders to plan a road map of restoration ahead of COP27, the Forum was attended by representatives from 11 African Governments, global and local NGOs, corporate…
We launched the world’s biggest privately funded, farmer-led land restoration programme in Kenya in May this year. The Global EverGreening Alliance’s Restore Africa Programme will restore 1.9 million hectares of land. That equates to supporting 1.5 million smallholder farming families across six African countries – Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The Programme will…
NAIROBI 23 MAY 2022 – Climate Asset Management confirms the first tranche of an $USD 150 million financing package to kick off the Global EverGreening Alliance’s nature based carbon programme in Africa. The Restore Africa Programme officially launches on 23 May 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya. The launch is being held at the Windsor Golf Hotel…