President Uhuru Kenyatta and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron could face protests by civil society groups, which accuse Kenya of double standards in pursuing policies that go against climate change mitigation efforts. Kenya should abandon the coal mining project because that’s not good for a country that wants to be an African example in promoting climate change mitigation,” Mr Mwenda said on Wednesday. As the headquarters of Unep, he said, Kenya must demonstrate commitment to scaling up environmental protection and providing good leadership to other African countries. Pursuing coal mining reflects some hypocrisy on part of the government,” he said. Kenya is the first African country to host the One Planet Summit, launched by President Macron in December 2017.

Source: Daily Nation March 14, 2019 04:00 UTC