{"id":11340,"date":"2025-08-18T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:15:42","slug":"new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/?p=11340","title":{"rendered":"New projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11340\" class=\"elementor elementor-11340\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6423b60 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6423b60\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e151297 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e151297\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">MERU AT THE HEART OF AFRICA\u2019S CLIMATE AGENDA <br><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal\">H.E. Hon Mutuma M'ethingia shared the voice of Meru and the journey of Meru people have walked on climate resilience, innovation, and hope. For Meru residents, climate change is not a theory; it is the lived reality of farmers who watch the rains fail, pastoralists who search for pasture, and families who struggle to protect their livelihoods. Yet, it is in this struggle that Meru has found its strength.<br><\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">\nThrough the FLLoCA programme, our communities are not waiting for handouts; they are taking charge, adopting climate-smart agriculture, conserving our forests and water towers, and building green enterprises that sustain families. The Governor told Arica and the world that when action begins at the grassroots, it does not just change lives, it transforms futures. <br>\n<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">On the sidelines of the Summit, he held engagements with leaders and partners, including Teresa Ribera (EU Executive Vice President), Semereta Sewasew (Ethiopia\u2019s Finance Minister), Mithika Mwenda Mzalendo, Executive Director Pan- African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA),Sofie From-Emmesberger (EU Ambassador), Diana Acconcia (EU Director for Climate Affairs), Soikan Meitiaki (World Bank), Sam Mugume (Coalition of Ministers of Finance for Climate Action), and Peter Odhengo (National FLLoCA Coordinator). With each discussion, he carried one clear message: Meru is open to the world.<\/span><br>\n<br><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">He invited partners to the county to advance renewable energy, water harvesting, sustainable agriculture, and conservation. He also showcased Meru\u2019s abundance, our coffee, bananas, avocados, tea, miraa, dairy, beef, honey, macadamia, and horticulture, not just as commodities, but as the pride of our farmers, waiting for global markets. He informed potential investors that Meru has taken a step further, becoming the first county in Kenya to establish a County Aggregation and Industrial Park, which is now ready for use. <\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">\n \"Meru is ready. Africa is ready. Together, we will turn resilience into opportunity\". <\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">\n#AfricaClimateSummit2 #MeruGreenFuture.\n#BuildingTogether\n<\/span><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-567cb63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"567cb63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/acs1-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-11902\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/acs1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/acs1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/acs1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/acs1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe63b77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fe63b77\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERU AT THE HEART OF AFRICA\u2019S CLIMATE AGENDA H.E. Hon Mutuma M&#8217;ethingia shared the voice of Meru and the journey of Meru people have walked on climate resilience, innovation, and hope. For Meru residents, climate change is not a theory; it is the lived reality of farmers who watch the rains fail, pastoralists who search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11340"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11340\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechange.meru.go.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}