Kenya’s 60 Years of Environmental Diplomacy: Protecting Nature, Projecting Influence

Kenya’s 60 years of Environmental Diplomacy: Protecting Nature, Projecting Influence

Kenya’s role in global environmental diplomacy is becoming more important than ever. Now that climate change is having the harshest effect on vulnerable countries, Kenya has had its share of opportunity to make its environmental work a kind of soft power—both to safeguard its ecosystems and to improve its reputation abroad. Although Kenya may not […] The post Kenya’s 60 years of Environmental Diplomacy: Protecting Nature, Projecting Influence ap…

In the face of a growing global climate emergency, the Gulf monarchies are gradually becoming indispensable diplomatic actors. Far from being mere spectators of international negotiations, they mobilise their climate diplomacy as a strategic lever of influence, between power stakes, economic diversification and geopolitical ambitions. The Defense and Climate Observatory, launched in December 2016 to analyse the interactions between climate, secu…