The Green Belt Movement at COP21 in Paris
Our delegation to COP21 climate talks in Paris.
'Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai' Re-Released in 12 Languages Coinciding with Paris Climate Conference
The film is now offered in Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Indonesian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Ethiopian community exchange visit
The community exchange visit aimed at creating common understanding and forging friendships through shared experience as a foundation for future networking.
A new partnership with Oikocredit
The event marked a new partnership that will see GBM’s ‘Greening Urban Schools’ programme grow and nurture more than 15,000 indigenous trees in different schools in Nairobi County over the next two years.
Community exchange visit in Ethiopia
10 members of the community from Kipipiri Constituency, Nyandarua County , visited different land restoration, clean energy and forest management projects in Hawassa, Goba and Bale regions in Ethiopia.
WFC 2015 XIV World Forestry Congress
A team from Green Belt Movement lead by the Board Chair Wanjira Mathai and our Executive Director Aisha Karanja is attending the XIV World Forestry Congress starting today in Durban.
Green Belt Movement participates at the New York Forum AFRICA 2015 in Libreville, Gabon
The 4th edition of the New York Forum AFRICA (NYFA), the world's leading pan-African business summit, is taking place on August 28-30, 2015 in Libreville, Gabon.
Green Belt Safari tour
We recently hosted a group of twelve geography students and their teachers from Germany for an educational tour where they visited a GBM communities in Kahuro and Kamuiru, Murang’a County, Kenya.
President Obama's reminiscence of Professor Wangari Maathai during visit to Kenya
"Kenya continues to carve out a distinct place among the nations. The country is a leader for conservation, following in the footprints of Wangari Maathai," President Barack Obama.
Policy Brief: Developing sustainable tree-based bioenergy systems in sub-Saharan Africa
This Policy Brief is as a result of an intensive three day workshop on ‘sustainable tree-based bioenergy systems’ with input from the Green Belt Movement among other organizations. Sustainable tree-based bioenergy is an avenue to support the proposed Sustainable Development Goal 7 on energy access for all.