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The Minister for Environment, Dr Vincent Biruta, addresses members of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Environment as Coletha Ruhamya, the Director General of REMA, looks on in Kigali yesterday. The Government has pinned its hopes on five local firms that produce non-plastic products and seven companies that recycle plastics to phase out the use of single use plastic materials without significant disruptions. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Govt bets on local firms to phase out single-use plastics, smoothly

Tuesday, March 05, 2019
Vincent Biruta, Minister for Environment.
Rwanda

Government faced with land fragmentation, transfer fee issues

Saturday, March 02, 2019
Members of Parliament during a session yesterday. The lawmakers approved the basis of the law banning single use plastics albeit with some concerns. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Firms should be given more time to phase out single use plastics: MPs

Monday, February 18, 2019
It was the first art exhibition by the UN agencyu2019s Rwanda chapter since it launched operations in the country in the 1970s. The exhibition addresses issues concerning unity, reconciliation, healing and social cohesion in post-conflict Rwanda. Photos by Emmanuel Kwizera.

Empowered lives, a photo exhibition by the UNDP in Rwanda

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Minister for Environment Vincent Biruta. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Extreme weather costs 10% of national budget – Biruta

Sunday, February 10, 2019
The project seeks to renovate forests and increase production. Jean de Dieu Nsabimana.
Rwanda

Agroforestry farmers to be grouped in cooperatives

Wednesday, February 06, 2019
A man is carried across a flooded Nyabugogo highway in April 2012. The Ministry of Environment has outlined a plan to end flooding in the area. File.
Rwanda

Minister Biruta outlines plan to end flooding in Nyabugogo

Tuesday, February 05, 2019
Rugezi wetland in Burera District. Over 7,000 illegal activities encroaching wetlands in the City of Kigali are set to be evicted. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

Over 7,000 activities face eviction from city wetlands

Sunday, February 03, 2019
Minister for Environment Vincent Biruta addreses media during the post cabinet press conference yesterday. Sam Ngendahimana
Rwanda

Rwanda on course to phase out single-use plastics

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Plastic bottles in a shop. / Nadege Imbabazi
Rwanda

Rwanda moves closer to banning single use plastics

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Students hold seedlings before planting them at Groupe Scolaire Musenyi in Kayonza District, Eastern Province. Sam Ngendahimana.
Rwanda

In 2018, Rwanda walked the talk on climate change but hard work lies ahead

Thursday, January 03, 2019
The Minister for Environment, Dr Vincent Biruta, pounds the gavel after nations agreed on the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on the phasing down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Kigali in October 2016. The Kigali Amendment entered into force on January 1, 2019, paving way for the world to reduce the powerful climate-warming gases by more than 80 per cent in the next 30 years. File.
Rwanda

Environmentalists buoyant as the Kigali Amendment enters into force

Thursday, January 03, 2019