The Environment: Protecting Kenya’s Environment SOLUTIONS Protect Kenya’s remaining forests and increase our forest cover to 10% over the next 20 years through a national planting scheme and by providing alternatives to over intensive farming and ending clearances for luxury development and industrial projects. In the short term, provide incentives and commercialize tree planting to meet the energy needs of 80% of Kenyan families now dependent upon wood fuel. Progressively enhance forest/tree cover to more than 10% of land in every county through the integration of agroforestry into mainstream extension programmes. Rehabilitate arid areas through afforestation, prevention of soil erosion and land reclamation. Tackle industrial pollution, through ensuring the industries release non-toxic emissions through research especially in Kenya’s lakes, implementing stricter guidelines and imposing vheavier punishment for polluters. Protect the integrity of the national parks by recruiting more and better equipped park rangers as well as involving local communities in managing the parks. Establish a series of additional marine reserves. Protect Kenya’s fish stocks by taxing and registering foreign owned fishing trawlers through more effective policing of our water bodies. Establish a regional framework for carbon trading across the EAC and the wider African region and beyond. Scale-up the investment in clean energy sources such as geothermal, wind and solar. Position Kenya as the African continent’s carbon credit trade hub by establishing county carbon trading schemes. Enforce statutory mechanisms for the disposal of human and industrial wastes. Enforce statutory mechanisms to eliminate harmful emissions, including those from factories and motor vehicles.
Agenda for Kenya 2013 - 2017 and beyond
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