Research Project

Environmental rights for a just energy transition in Kenya

Principal Investigator
Dr Stephen Turner
This project is in partnership with the Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action (CJGEA)
This project will investigate the application of procedural environmental rights as a tool to empower the community living in the Uyombo area in Kenya, which has been earmarked for a nuclear reactor. By empowering the Uyombo community through the application of procedural environmental rights, the project will contribute to challenge the responsibility of state and non-state actors towards environmental protection and access to socio-economic rights.

The Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action (CJGEA) will advocate for accountability in environmental governance and to enhance the protection of communities’ rights in the face of a potentially harmful development project such as the proposed nuclear reactor. The Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action (CJGEA) is a grassroots environmental justice organisation based in Kenya and rooted in the communities most impacted by pollution.