Eng. Festus K Ng'eno

Today I held discussions with Danish Ambassador to Kenya H. E Ole Thonke on Strategic Sector Cooperation in regards to Climate Change, Sustainable Waste Management among others.

Accompanied Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Soipan Tuya in a meeting with US Ambassador to Kenya H. E Meg Whitman who paid her courtesy call to discuss areas of strategic partnerships in the areas of Climate Change, Waste Management, Clean Energy, Carbon Markets among others

As we celebrate this festive season, let us remember that we only have One Planet (our Mother Earth) - it’s ours to protect it. Take some moments to grow some trees this season.

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2023!

As we celebrate our Independence Journey as a country, we look forward to engaging in cutting-edge research and innovation for disaster and climate resilient infrastructure.

This will create a global multi-disciplinary pool of future-ready professionals and practitioners who will help shape resilient systems to prepare for a growingly uncertain future.

Yes we will, Yes we can.

Today I officially took over from my predecessor PS Dr. Chris Kiptoo as the PS Environment and Climate Change.

Once more, I would like to thank the President H.E. Hon. Dr. William Samoei Ruto, for the appointment.

To my predecessor PS Dr. Chris Kiptoo - congratulations for your achievements and great dedication to serve the Kenyan people and the environment sector at large.

You have challenged me and it will be a great privilege and honour to work for Kenyans in this docket, which is directly connected to humanity because as we know environment has no boundaries.

Together with Environment Stakeholders, the Ministry Staff and those serving in our Agencies, we shall continue with the good work of championing for environmental matters and achieve the set targets , under the Ministry’s mandate.

In collaboration with our able Cabinet Secretary Hon. Soipan Tuya CS For Environment and my counterpart in the Forestry docket PS Ephantus Kimotho, we shall be rolling out programs and actions that will mitigate and help in adaption to the current climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution crises.

These programs will include operationalization of the Sustainable Waste Management Act 2022 seeking to transitioning to a circular economy in a bid to reduce pollution to the environment and extraction of valuables from waste collected and national tree growing exercise to increase forest cover in the country.
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I wish to sincerely thank H.E. the President Hon. Dr. William Samoei Ruto, Phd for appointing me to serve in his Government.

I am grateful for this opportunity to serve the Kenyan people in the Environment and Climate Change Sector, which I am passionate about.

I am grateful and thankful to the Almighty God, family, friends colleagues and Kenyans of good will for their support.

As I take up the role of Principal Secretary in the State Department Environment & Climate Change, I will be looking forward to deal with the key priority areas and scale up actions to address the Triple Planetary Crisis - Climate, Nature and Pollution.

In order to meet the Ministry’s growing mandate and expectations, I will engage all stakeholders and staff, listen attentively to your concerns, expectations and admonitions, to enable us achieve our objectives and goals.
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Thank you
Asante Sana
God bless Kenya

Today marks the annual World Toilet Day 2022 which focuses on the impact of the sanitation crisis on groundwater.

The main objective of the day is to raise awareness to take action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: Sanitation and Water for all by 2030.

This year’s campaign is under the theme “Making the Invisible Visible”, explores how inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources and ecosystems.

Poor sanitation escalates the big problem of waste management which is a menace in the country.

However, there is hope in solving this menace with the coming into force of Solid Waste Management Act 2022 which will bring a paradigm shift from linear to a circular economy.

Sanitary waste disposed in our rivers and landfills continue to affect underground water resources and ecosystems, and it intensifies the vagaries of climate change

As this problem seems to be invisible, there is rapid population growth worsening the impacts of climate change by straining resources and exposing more people to climate-related risks hence more reason why we need action now!

As we celebrate this day we need to be cognizant of the fact that that proper sanitation by use of toilets protects groundwater from human waste pollution, which will enable us attain the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2: that advocates for safe toilets for all by 2030.
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The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) in Egypt has reignited the debate from previous COP meetings, setting pace for calls from across sectors for acceleration of action on an array of issues critical to tackling the climate emergency.

The urgent need remains to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience, and adapting to the inevitable vagaries of climate change, and more importantly to delivering on the commitments by the industrialized nations to finance climate action in developing countries which bear the brunt of effects of climate change.

As nations across the globe grapple with adaptation and mitigation to cope with the increasingly intense natural disasters caused by vagaries of climate change, there is need for urgent action to save lives.

Even as world leaders, activists, civil society and key stakeholders agitate for scaling up adaption and mitigation financing, provision of technologies to aid in earlier prediction and warnings there is need for individual responsibility to protect planet earth because its only
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