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President William Ruto has taken the greening project to the Judiciary, saying the process will be inevitable. 

The Head of State said the judiciaries must be exposed to diverse fields such as ecology, economics and agriculture in the meeting on Monday.

Others, he added are food systems, trade and finance, carbon markets, energy and infrastructure.

More than 300 delegates including 27 Chief Justices from across the Africa Continent have converged in Nairobi for the 3rd regional symposium on greening judiciaries in Africa.

"Greening our judiciaries will be inevitably multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary, beyond local and international human rights, constitutional, environmental, trade and economic law," he said.

Ruto also recounted when he launched the national tree planting in December 2022, which he hopes would restore forest and rangeland, aiming at growing 15 billion trees by 2032. 

"This will increase the national tree cover from the current 12.3 per cent to 30 per cent, which will be three times the constitutionally mandated minimum of 10 per cent," he recounted. 

Ruto said the move will further contribute to the African Landscape Restoration Initiative targets, as well as other initiatives to restore degraded lands, forests and water towers

"My administration is also taking measures to ensure that every ministry, department and agency aligns its policies, strategies, programmes and projects with our green agenda." 

Ruto also said the global responses to climate change will institute structural change.

“Although climate change is a universal existential threat, there is good reason for Africa’s institutions and leadership to drive the agenda of mitigating its effects,” Ruto said.

He noted that the institutional reconfigurations and economic resets emanating from this change will install Africa not only as the continent of the future but as the world’s green economic superpower.

“The looming climate disaster is particularly tragic for Africa, which is entering a new path of peace and prosperity.”

He also said that the path of pollution is not an option even though Africa is focused on tackling poverty and inequality.

Further, he applauded the Judiciary for being in the leading position in challenging climate change.

“I am highly encouraged to note the depth of thoroughness in your appreciation of the existential magnitude of climate change and the imperative for urgent action by all stakeholders, anchored on common institutional coordination,” Ruto said.