In July 2024, 2,226 farmers in Kenya’s Embu and Tharaka Nithi regions were paid for trees they had planted and kept alive. The money arrived by mobile phone and came to Ksh12,237,467 (USD$94,135). Divided among them, that is about KES 5,500 (USD$42) each, for a year of doing exactly what every climate communique since Paris has said the world urgently needs done. I offer that number because the money reached the right people, through a channel t…
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