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Welcome to the very first episode of the Climate Voices Podcast that will be bringing together professionals, climate activists, community champions and policy makers from across the world to share their stories and experiences in tackling the impacts of climate change. Our first guest, Caroline Kibii, is the Founder of Enviro Wild Initiative that focuses mentoring youth (between the ages of 21-29) on climate action, sensitization, storytelling conservation in six countries in East Africa. She was recognized as a 2021 Top 100 Young Africa Conservation Leader through her work.
In this 41 minute episode, Caroline begins by sharing her journey as a youth climate enthusiast that has been working with young people in addressing climate change. She mentions that in the past, through her initiative, and in collaboration with other stakeholders, she has been involved in restoring Lake Kamnarok in Baringo County, Kenya, that has been showing declining trends in the water level due to climate change - causing major impacts on the communities that depend on the lake to support their livelihoods and wildlife that are supported by the lake.
Caroline talks about her writing initiatives that she uses to communicate on climate change action that include writing letters to the editors, newspaper articles, blog posts and policy briefs. She addresses some of the challenges faced in fighting climate change that include financial constraints, insufficient data and publication of scientific articles in Africa to capture climate change impacts from an African context in the global arena.
Finally, Caroline shares her position on the upcoming COP 27 in Egypt later this year, which she says is an opportunity for Africa to present a common voice at the conference to ensure it benefits from the outcome of what has been termed "An African COP" in coping with the impacts of climate change, post the conference. She calls on the young people to unite and push governments to act in addressing climate change because its' their very future that is threatened.
Here are the links to the policy briefs that Caroline has done
https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2870/44613
https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2870/509102
https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2870/465572
Enjoy the show and look out for more interesting topics lined up in future!
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