Mombasa County Commissioner Mohammed Noor has challenged the youth to take an active role in environment conservation and climate change mitigation.

According Noor, the youth are better positioned to champion for environment conservation.

Addressing a youth gathering at a Pre World Environment Day forum organised by Manyata Kenya, at the little theatre club, Noor said the government is keen in engaging the youth in conserving the environemnt.

"As you have all been seeing, our president has always been advocating for environment conservation and he has been keen in working so I call upon you all here today to take up that challenge and work towards a better tomorrow."

The County Commissioner also noted that the government will employ over 18,000 youth in Mombasa under the Climate Worx project.

Climate WorX initiative is a flagship environmental and employment program aimed at rehabilitating critical ecosystems particularly urban river corridors while creating job opportunities for Kenyan youth.

"We are looking into employing 18,300 youth under the program." said Noor.

Adding " I encourage our young people to apply for this opportunity, to just sit and come to complain later."

On his part the head of solid waste management under the county department of environment Rogers Wangila called on the residents to ensure they work closely with the county government is conserving environment.

"All is needee is just behavioral change and more sensitization, it is not the Governor who throws waste in the streets , it is us as the residents and we are also the ones to suffer so please lets change our behaviour and keep our city clean." said Wangila.

Adding "Currently we generate 10047 tonnes of waste a day and this is mainly from our homes, the county has no capacity to handle this and this why we also have to be responsible as residents and also look into ways on how we can recycle some of this waste."