Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya has said her ministry is in the process of streamlining the charcoal trade in the country. "We also commit to decriminalize charcoal trade, modernize and commercialize the charcoal value chain, promote youth-owned and operated briquette-making enterprises and support the scaling up of clean cooking," CS Tuya said on Thursday. "We also intend to map and organise waste collectors into cooperatives and provide circular economy waste separation sites/infrastructure," the CS said. In their address, Principal Secretaries Festus Ng'eno (Environment and Climate Change) and Gitonga Mugambi (Forestry) assured CS Tuya of their commitment to seeing to it that the performance contracts were successfully implemented. Ng'eno said performance contracts were fully aligned with the ministry's 2023 to 2027 strategic plan and Kenya Vision 2030.

Source: The Star August 04, 2023 15:28 UTC