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By Fredrick Ochieng` Mbima During the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio Conference in 1992, the language was that of disaster preparedness. Scientists had projected a world condemned by disasters due to an anticipated significant Change of the climate. The change whose cause was pegged on a significant increase in the global greenhouse gases due to increased industrialization would worsen with time therefore prompting preparedness. Scientists agreed that the threat would be more real when temperatures from preindustrial period increased above 2 0 C. This position has not changed since current commitments are still objected towards ensuring temperatures remain below 2 0 C by the year 2100. The question is therefore, why the language has changed yet we are not yet close even to 1.5 0 C increase in temperatures. Why are current disasters identified with Climate Change yet the world is still at safe levels of the global temperatures. In

By Fredrick Ochieng’ Ouma                                                                                                            In the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC), all the countries who are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the beloved offspring of the Earth Summit, were supposed to submit during the 21 st Conference of Parties, countries outlined their emissions stoppage years and when they expect to start the decline in their emissions. More than three-quarters of Parties to UNFCCC submitted these INDCs with a commitment to specific timelines and figures, whether your emissions were significant or not. In fact, the Underdeveloped and the developing countries with insignificant emissions had the most ambitious INDCs. What stands to highlight the difference between these countries or negotiation blocks, is how they stand to use the period between Paris to the specific years they commit to stop further emissions. This

By Paul Mutuku To the `Mankind' planet P.O.Box, 13milion hectares down, Annually Planet Earth Thro’ United Nations HQ,   NY, United States My dear old friend, It is with much sadness that I write you this letter. Not that I usually do, but because of you, I am obliged to. I know it will find you well, even after making my thriving in our planet a living hell. You remember when the creator first set you in the garden, what did he tell you? Wasn’t it that you were supposed to take care of me and the rest of the creation was it not so? You found me in total peace and good health and so were you when we first interacted. Many of my kinds showed you a lot of generosity, with the fruits nature could allow them to bring forth, and I was no exception! From the depths of our own `baskets’ we provided for you, never to complain, because you were at least paying us back by tending to our nourishment. Heaven was right before our vicinity, as we enjoyed each other’s comp