As a society, we are endeared to tree planting campaigns, and we honour the late Prof Wangari Maathai for drawing national attention to environmental concerns.
Yet Kenya’s mean surface temperatures have increased since the late 1990s, when the Nobel Laureate sounded the prescient alarm. Therefore, we must ask ourselves if tree planting campaigns are the most strategic and sustainable means by which the government and private sector can collaborate to realise the goals of the national climate change action plan.
