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Africa Climate Conversations.

We tell climate and environmental stories from an African perspective. Using this podcast and Africa Climate Conversations YouTube, we share these stories through expert in-depth conversations and human interest stories from the field. Hello, and welcome. My name is Sophie Mbugua, and I am from Kenya. I am an environmental journalist passionate about Africa, my motherland, nature, and travel. I started this podcast in 2022 after reporting for numerous international, local, and regional media outlets

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13:03

What Are the Hidden Environmental Costs of Solar Energy?

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2025/12/18

Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and biofuels are some of the renewable energy resources.They are said to be green because they come from natural sources, are constantly replenished, and produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to coal, oil, and gas. But, if these technologies end up in open landfills after their life, with the minerals thy are made of polluting water, and soils, are they truly green?On this episode, let's explore therenewable energy hidden environmental costs of Solar

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20:21

Weaving for Survival.

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2025/07/10

As the climate crisis continues, come with me to Syethe village, southeast of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi where we meet a group of women earning a living by weaving and selling handbags in addition to farming. With these easily accessible skills, materials and capitalising on technologies such as WhatsApp how are they helping breed a new culture of #resilience in times of changing agricultural fortunes?Let's find out together!

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20:21

Weaving for Survival.

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2025/07/10

As the climate crisis continues, come with me to Syethe village, southeast of Kenya's capital, Nairobi where we meet a group of women earning a living by weaving and selling handbags in addition to farming. With these easily accessible skills, materials and capitalising on technologies such as WhatsApp how are they helping breed a new culture of #resilience in times of changing agricultural fortunes?Let's find out together!

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36:27

Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/08/20

Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential.However, Manson Gwanyanya, the researcher and representative for South and Anglophone Africa at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, told the African Climate Conversations podcast that implementing these existing frameworks is key to delivering a shared prosperity for the communities whose land and resources are crucial for the energy transition in Africa.”.Demand for critical minerals

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36:27

Legislative Frameworks: The Key to an Energy...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/08/20

Clear frameworks for community benefit sharing in the mining and renewable energy sectors are essential.However, Manson Gwanyanya, the researcher and representative for South and Anglophone Africa at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, told the African Climate Conversations podcast that implementing these existing frameworks is key to delivering a shared prosperity for the communities whose land and resources are crucial for the energy transition in Africa.".Demand for critical minerals

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29:41

How can airlines help bridge existing weather data gaps?

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/08/06

Sensors on aeroplanes measure wind speed, humidity, and temperature, which is crucial for weather forecasting. As climate-related extreme events increase in frequency and intensity, effective weather-related infrastructure is critical not just for the agriculture sector but also development sectors such as agriculture, industries, and communities, which require timely, accurate data to adapt to the changing climate and mitigate future losses. On today's episode, Dr. Abubakr Salih Babiker, a

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29:41

How can airlines help bridge existing weather data gaps?

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/08/06

Sensors on aeroplanes measure wind speed, humidity, and temperature, which is crucial for weather forecasting. As climate-related extreme events increase in frequency and intensity, effective weather-related infrastructure is critical not just for the agriculture sector but also development sectors such as agriculture, industries, and communities, which require timely, accurate data to adapt to the changing climate and mitigate future losses. On today's episode, Dr. Abubakr Salih Babiker, a

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18:01

Meet a Kenyan teacher teaching children crucial...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/06/11

Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad.The environment underpins humans' survival today and tomorrow. As the world warms, it's important to remember the vital role the environment's natural resources, such as forests, play in balancing human activities such as the burning of coal and other fossil fuels and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.Hence, teaching our children about the environment and the need to

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18:01

Meet a Kenyan teacher teaching children crucial...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/06/11

Our children are the next generation. We, as humans, pass on our legacy to them, whether good or bad.The environment underpins humans’ survival today and tomorrow. As the world warms, it’s important to remember the vital role the environment's natural resources, such as forests, play in balancing human activities such as the burning of coal and other fossil fuels and reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.Hence, teaching our children about the environment and the need to

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15:24

How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman’s...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/05/28

This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour's drive from Makueni’s capital town Wote, I met a 70-year-old lady who, after a severe three-year drought hit the village, learned how to weave beaded baskets. She is relying on WhatsApp, her family, and Facebook to make sales. Have a listen to our conversation.

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15:24

How WhatsApp transformed 70-year-old Kenyan woman's...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/05/28

This week, I was visiting a town in Makueni County, located in the southeastern part of Kenya. About an hour's drive from Makueni's capital town Wote, I met a 70-year-old lady who, after a severe three-year drought hit the village, learned how to weave beaded baskets. She is relying on WhatsApp, her family, and Facebook to make sales. Have a listen to our conversation.

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18:39

Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/05/14

African nations are blessed with 30% of the world’s critical minerals. Mineral that the world needs to develop solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, defence infrastructures, communication infrastructure, digital economy and many more.However, past mining activities since colonial era has taught Africa taught lessons. Minerals, particularly diamonds, are widely believed to have been the main factor at the root of Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war in the 1990s

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18:39

Critical Minerals: has Africa learned from its past...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/05/14

African nations are blessed with 30% of the world's critical minerals. Mineral that the world needs to develop solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy storage, electric vehicles, defence infrastructures, communication infrastructure, digital economy and many more.However, past mining activities since colonial era has taught Africa taught lessons. Minerals, particularly diamonds, are widely believed to have been the main factor at the root of Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war in the 1990s

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23:17

Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature's Fragile...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/04/23

Humanly speaking, forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in the sense that there are more resources to be mined or prospected for, more land to be utilized, a vast ocean and waterbodies that can handle enormous levels of pollution, vast underground water resources that can never be drained, and billions of fish to be caught.This attitude that the earth has an unlimited capacity and the insatiable human nature to get as

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23:17

Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature's Fragile...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/04/23

Humanly speaking, forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in the sense that there are more resources to be mined or prospected for, more land to be utilized, a vast ocean and waterbodies that can handle enormous levels of pollution, vast underground water resources that can never be drained, and billions of fish to be caught.This attitude that the earth has an unlimited capacity and the insatiable human nature to get as

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42:00

Why planting mangroves is not the solution.

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/04/09

Mangroves are versatile and flexible forests that can cope with enormous disturbances. Dr. Judith Okello, a senior research scientist and mangrove ecologist at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, says that when sedimentation occurs, the mangroves can form a new cable rooting system and migrate when there is space on land. However, due to human influence, global temperatures continue to rise, causing frequent and sporadic weather-related events. When such events occur, they lead to

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42:00

Why planting mangroves is not the solution.

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/04/09

Mangroves are versatile and flexible forests that can cope with enormous disturbances. Dr. Judith Okello, a senior research scientist and mangrove ecologist at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, says that when sedimentation occurs, the mangroves can form a new cable rooting system and migrate when there is space on land. However, due to human influence, global temperatures continue to rise, causing frequent and sporadic weather-related events. When such events occur, they lead to

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21:38

Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/03/26

Featured today are a group of ladies who are establishing a livelihood by planting mangroves. About sixty kilometres south of Mombasa in Kwale County, in the small fishing town of Msambweni, a group of fifteen women from the Munje village joined together during the COVID-19 outbreak. A community-based organisation with 30 members has developed out of them after around four years. They are planting mangrove propagules along the southern coast of Kenya, around Vanga-Funzi Bay, to preserve a portion of

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21:38

Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story...

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/03/26

Featured today are a group of ladies who are establishing a livelihood by planting mangroves. About sixty kilometres south of Mombasa in Kwale County, in the small fishing town of Msambweni, a group of fifteen women from the Munje village joined together during the COVID-19 outbreak. A community-based organisation with 30 members has developed out of them after around four years. They are planting mangrove propagules along the southern coast of Kenya, around Vanga-Funzi Bay, to preserve a portion of

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34:01

Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.

Africa Climate Conversations. ·

2024/03/05

Today we meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs along theKenyan coast. Coral reefs along the Lamu-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a small archipelago north of Mombasa in Kenya, have degraded over the years. Pate Island, the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lies between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga, which depend on fishing. However, fishery productivity depends on healthy corals. How did the coral degradation impact these communities’ livelihoods? What degraded these corals? What are these

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