Stawi Makaa

This concept presents a new paradigm in development thinking, emphasizing growth that is friendly to the earth’s ecosystems and can also contribute to poverty alleviation. It is an approach that seeks to achieve sustainable development and requires transformation of production and consumption or lifestyles towards economic activities that enhance and preserve environmental quality while using energy, water and natural resources more efficiently. Successful transition to a green economy requires various reforms including those that support economic transformation, capacity building, and reform of regulatory frameworks and improved financing mechanisms. With the world’s population at seven billion people − rising to nine billion by 2050, a key challenge will be meeting the energy, food and water needs and ensuring they have clean and healthy living environments (UNEP 2011). Developing countries are more vulnerable to environmental threats, with environmental risks to human well-bei...

• Economic Efficiency - Creating economic goods and services with fewer resources and less pollution. • Low Carbon development - Harnessing new renewable energy sources and reducing fossil fuel consumption. • Investing in natural capital and ecosystem services (e.g., to safeguard water supplies and tourism earnings and to enhance cropland and rangeland productivity). • Efficient markets that internalize all social and environmental costs. Other building blocks that are equally important include, transport, and water infrastructure systems; affordable and environmentally friendly housing; equitable access and governance of natural resources; environmentally aware citizens and green consumers; and new measurements of well-being and sustainable economic welfare that are publicly available. Kenya’s transition toward Greener economy, must go hand in hand with her overall priorities; poverty reduction, food security, comprehensive and improved education, safe water supply and sani...