Climate Change

Embracing clean cooking to improve climate

Benjamin Jumbe | January 27, 2025

Learning institutions are among the leading consumers of firewood, a phenomenon exacerbating deforestation. The consequences of deforestation go beyond the loss of trees to disrupting rainfall patterns, with use of firewood worsening climate change effects through increased carbon emissions. To address this, however, schools are now being challenged to embrace […]

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Analysing food security, climate change

Benjamin Jumbe | January 14, 2025

The just concluded Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Summit saw the adoption of a new 10-year CAADP Strategy and Action Plan, along with the CAADP Kampala Declaration. This aims to reinvigorate the continent’s efforts to transform its agrifood systems after most countries failed to meet previous commitments made 20 […]

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Role of urban planning in Kampala’s fight against climate change

Benjamin Jumbe | December 23, 2024

During the last decade, Uganda has shown changes in temperature, rainfall patterns, and an increase in extreme weather events like droughts and floods. Accordingly, the National Climate Change Policy enshrines the strategies the country will take towards climate change mitigation and adaptation. In the following report, KFM’s Benjamin Jumbe looks […]

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NMG-U, partners to plant over 5000 trees

Barbra Anyait | October 31, 2024

Nation Media Group-Uganda (NMG-U) has committed to planting over 5000 trees in different schools around the country under its Corporate Social Responsibility programme to contribute towards mitigating the effects of climate change. The exercise is being conducted in partnership with Roofings Ltd, which has provided the initial 450 fruit tree […]

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NMG introduces special desk for climate change

admin | September 17, 2024

By Abdul-Nasser Ssemugabi The year 2023 was confirmed as the warmest on record, with the average global temperature reaching 1.45°C, according to a World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) report. This alarming increase in global warming is largely attributed to human-induced climate change, further exacerbated by the natural El Nifio weather pattern. There […]