Kenya Youth Engagement in Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation through Environmental Education Practice Brian Waswala Youth Coordinator - RCE Greater Nairobi First RCE Thematic Conference: Towards Achieving the SDGs 5-7 December 2017, Okayama, Japan [email protected]/ [email protected]1
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Kenya Youth Engagement in Climate
Change Mitigation Adaptation
through Environmental Education
Practice
Brian Waswala
Youth Coordinator - RCE Greater Nairobi
First RCE Thematic Conference: Towards Achieving the SDGs
• Kenya’s tree cover approximated at less than 4%• Hinders achievement of various UN SDGs (SDG 13, 14, 15)• Seeks to restore and increase acreage forest and river ecosystems in Kenya• Use student organised associations, students and youth commitment• Conducted within formal institutions – sustainability reporting
Achievements:o Greening the under-utilized on-campus land resources;o Promoting green entrepreneurship (SDG 1);o Food security (SDG 2) through agroforestry and apiculture;o Enhanced capacity for communities in environmental resilience, especiallyfor women, youth and marginalised communities;
o Promotion of fuel-efficient cook stoves and briquettes production asalternative fuel-wood energy sources (SDG 7 and 12).
Over 20 tree nurseries have been set up in five universities, and 10,000 trees planted on or near Kenyan campuses.
• Universities are centres of excellence and should impact theirspheres of influence
• Most universities do not promote sustainable developmenteducation, within student learning
• Through policy design and implementation, youth in collaborationwith UN Environment, the National Environment managementAuthority and the Commission of University Educationchampioned the formation of the Kenya Green UniversityNetwork (February 2016).
Outputs Incorporation of low carbon-climate resilience developmentstrategies and sustainability aspects in Kenya’s higher educationinstitutions’ training, campus operations and student activities(Sustainability policies and Sustainability Literacy Test:https://www.sulitest.org/en/index.html);
Catalysing and raising the need for more sustainable universities;
Fostering student eco-innovations and acquisition of relevant skillsfor sustainable local communities; and
Promoting the adoption of green schools and universities.
8Kenya Green University Network Launch – 5 Feb 2016
WE are achieving the following:
Positive behaviour and attitude change towards environmentalsustainability due to life-long learning in natural resourcemanagement;
Development of green building standards that are eco-friendly –promoting use of ambient lighting; alternative building material;surface rain-water collection; recycling and waste watertreatment; solar water heating and green spaces; and
Sharing of best practices and upscale these initiatives to TVETs,secondary and primary school initiatives.
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African Environmental Education and Training Action
Plan (AEETAP)
• Inadequate and uncoordinated environmental awareness
adversely contributes to environmental degradation;
• Developed to promote capacity development for future