{"id":2721,"date":"2019-05-27T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T08:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"east-africas-green-economy-shift-off-to-shaky-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/27\/east-africas-green-economy-shift-off-to-shaky-start\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa\u2019s Green Economy Shift Off To Shaky Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By <\/em><strong><em>JAMES ANYANZWA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East African countries lack the\ninstitutional capacity to implement policies on clean and environment friendly\ntechnologies, which is stifling sustainable growth of green economies across\nthe region, according to a new report by UK-based research firm Chatham House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report, released last week\nand titled An Inclusive Circular Economy: Priorities for Developing Countries,\nshows that although Rwanda and Kenya have imposed total bans on plastic bags in\nan attempt to reduce pollution, there are still a large number of plastic bags\nbeing smuggled into the countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two countries have also\nfailed to give retailers, manufacturers and consumers cheap and good-quality\nalternatives to plastic bags\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/East-Africa-green-economy-shift-off-to-shaky-start\/2560-5130954-99fwg7z\/index.html\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JAMES ANYANZWA East African countries lack the institutional capacity to implement policies on clean and environment friendly technologies, which is stifling sustainable growth of green economies across the region,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}