Daily Reporter Editor-in-Chief Patrick Mayoyo is the bronze winner ofthe 2018 Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Global Prize for coverage of climate change.
Mayoyo won the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Global Prize for coverage of climate change for his series of stories on the planned coal plant in Lamu.
The 2018 UNCA Awards winners gala was held at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York and was graced by UN Secretary General António Guterres.
Mayoyo’s stories raised both environmental and health hazards urging that coal as a fossil fuel which produces carbon dioxide and other Greenhouse gases caused global warming.
He wrote that Greenhouse gas emissions result in climate change which is blamed for causing droughts, floods, diseases, food shortages and water scarcity among other environmental and health complications.
He indicated that the move by Kenya to ahead with plans to set-up a coal plant in Lamu against The Paris Agreement that entered into force on 4 November 2016.
The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The stories touched on the proposed Lamu coal plant contradicts Kenya’s promise on climate change and uproar over US industrial giant GE plans to buy Ksh 40 billion stake in Lamu coal plant.
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Mayoyo is a leading investigative journalist who has won many awards that include:
2017 Nobert Zongo Africa Investigative Award
2016 KCK International Award for Excellence in Print Journalism
2015 European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali Media Prize (Europe)
2014 CNN MultiChoice African Awards winner Environment Category
2014 African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting award-Overall and online category winner
2013 East Africa Community Media Awards Environment Category.
2013 KCK International Award for Excellence in Print Journalism
2007 Social and Environmental Responsibility World Journalism Prize
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