A Sustainable Uganda with Renewable Energy (Commemorating Earthday)
A Sustainable Uganda with Renewable Energy (Commemorating Earthday)
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The air in Kampala-Uganda our vibrant city hangs heavy, it is often mixed with exhaust fumes from burning of fossil fuels a testament of our reliance on unsustainable energy. Each Day we feel a shift in our once cool breeze together with the harsh...
Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future: Insights from Greenwatch’s Wetlands Day Discussion
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In commemoration of World Wetlands Day, Greenwatch hosted an insightful discussion featuring experts from the Ministry of Water and Environment and legal professionals specializing in environmental conservation. The discussion explored the critical...
Samantha Atukunda Kakuru Mwesigwa
Rediscovering My Purpose: A Site Visit to Kasese
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After nearly thirteen years as an environmental lawyer, it’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of work—research, public interest litigation, community engagements, trainings, workshops, and seminars. The paperwork, court sessions, Zoom calls...
Greenwatch Rebrands with new strategy
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Founded in 1995, Greenwatch has been advocating for climate justice, environmental rights and conservation championing the right to a clean and healthy environment for Ugandans as their fundamental right. In November 2024, 29 years later, Greenwatch...
Shelina Virani, Aga Khan International School, Grade 12
Discovering Environmental Advocacy at Greenwatch
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Written by Shelina Virani, Aga Khan International School, Grade 12. During my brief yet impactful time at Greenwatch Limited, I had the privilege of immersing myself in the world of environmental advocacy and legal work. Though my contribution may...
Greenwatch Empowers Young Lawyers: Training on Climate Action, Litigation and Justice.
Greenwatch Empowers Young Lawyers: Training on Climate Action, Litigation and Justice.
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On August 15 th, 2024, Greenwatch, in partnership with the Uganda Law Society (ULS), hosted a pivotal training event at Mestil Hotel in Kampala aimed at advancing climate advocacy in Uganda. The training, titled " Igniting Passion for Climate Justice...
Greenwatch Concludes Sixth Judicial Training on Climate Change in Mbale
Greenwatch Concludes The Sixth Judicial Training on Climate Change in Mbale
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On May 20 th, Ugandan judges gathered at Mbale Resort Hotel in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda for the sixth annual judicial training program on climate justice, organized by Greenwatch, an environmental rights non-governmental organization. Since...
Kampala’s plastic disposal and management crisis, a question of responsibility
Kampala’s plastic disposal and management crisis, a question of responsibility
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Apparent like the scarcity of green cover in this vast city, the plastic disposal and management crisis in Kampala remains a puzzle yet to be solved. Users have continuously found convenience in dumping plastic on streets and elsewhere, just like...
Greenwatch celebrates World Wildlife Day 2024
Greenwatch celebrates World Wildlife Day 2024
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Climaxed with conservation-tourism, Greenwatch launched and ran a week-long digital campaign commemorating the world wildlife day that is globally celebrated every 3rd day of March. The 2024 theme “ Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife...
The Fifth Judicial Training on Climate Justice - News Feature 📰
📹The Fifth Judicial Training on Climate Justice - News Feature 📰 - May 2023
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Capacity building through trainings is one of the core mechanisms through which Greenwatch realises its vision. Since 2019, Greenwatch has organised 4 judicial trainings with the aim of strengthening effective adjudication of environment issues. We...
Ban on Commercial Charcoal, and Timber Trade in Gulu
Ban on Commercial Charcoal, and Timber Trade in Gulu
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What the recent ban on commercial charcoal, timber trade means for the environment and residents in Gulu Earlier last week, the Daily Monitor newspaper published a story titled “ Government bans commercial charcoal, timber trade in Gulu”. Accordingly...
Economic Development vis-à-vis Climate Change
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A crisis Greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 70% by the year 2050 if no climate action is taken now, elevating the global atmospheric temperature to up to 4 oC - 6 oC by 2100 (OECD, 2012) What to be done? In order to stabilize GHG(Green House Gas)...
The Fourth Judicial Training on Climate Justice - April 2022
The Fourth Judicial Training on Climate Justice - April 2022
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The 4 th Judicial Training was held on the 13 th and 14 th of April 2022, organised by Greenwatch in conjunction with the Judicial Training Institute (JTI) at Mestil Hotel & Residences, Kampala. The theme of the training workshop was: " Strengthening...
Celebrating the International Cleanup Day for the Nile
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Louise Slaughter an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States Representative from New York once said, “Let’s clean up our environment, let’s clean up our bodies but most importantly, let’s not permit our babies of the future to be...
Women are changing the narrative in the conservation space.
Women are changing the narrative in the conservation space.
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When I was in High School, I used to spend most of my vacations volunteering (this seemed like a much more appropriate word, but actually, my dad did not like the idea of us being redundant at home during our vacations, so he took us to work) with an...
Enchroachers Evicted from Protected Areas: A Mere Fuss or The Real Deal?
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Earlier this week I had the opportunity of attending the Annual General Meeting for the Uganda Forestry Working Group (UFWG) and among the emerging issues that were discussed at the meeting was the recent decision by cabinet on 27th July, 2021 to...
Nile Coalition Initiative with Greenwatch Uganda
Nile Coalition Initiative with Greenwatch Uganda
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Greenwatch is among the organizations that is a part of the Nile Coalition Initiative (NCI). Other organizations that are part of this coalition include ( https://www.redrocksinitiative.org, https://www.agrabilityafrica.org/junior-ranger-uganda...
The Right To Access Information: Inclusive Governance in The East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
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On the 20th of May 2021, Tanzania and East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company (EACOP) signed the Host Government Agreement (HGA) for Tanzania. This was the final agreement for the pipeline project that will enable exploitation of crude oil in Uganda...
Why Climate Change Should be Everyone’s Concern
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In the recent past, the world has received its fair share of climate change disasters ranging from effects such as global warming, destructive hailstorms, catastrophic landslides to deadly fires and swarms of locusts. Ecosystems world-wide have been...
Parliament Passes The National Climate Change Bill 2020
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On the 27th of April 2021, the Ugandan parliament in an unprecedented move, unanimously passed the National Climate Change Bill to tackle the climate change crisis in Uganda. The Bill intends to give force of law to the United Nations Framework...
The POWER of INFORMATION about Uganda’s oil agreements!
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The right of access to information is a fundamental right recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since 1946. An informed population can effectively build stable governments and political institutions. This is through holding leaders...
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