Why we focus on climate financing?
There is a need for heightened advocacy around climate because the most salient fact about climate commitments at both the global and national level is that they are often not implemented.
The government is far behind on its targets for climate adaptation spending, and Kenya's 2025 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement shifts the focus back toward climate mitigation in spite of numerous commitments to rebalance toward adaptation spending.
Although legislation was introduced to create a Climate Change Fund nearly a decade ago, the fund does not appear to exist and climate expenditures remain fragmented across the budget, making it hard to identify and track.
Our Climate Finance Strategy
Our work climate finance work in Kenya over the next three years will be guided by the following objectives:
1. Create a constituency for climate change policy and finance among a small, but well-organized and credible group of civil society organizations and citizens in Kenya.
2. Ensure that the relative share of climate finance allocated for climate adaptation continues to grow and is executed with enhanced transparency and oversight.
3. Kenya is able to finance, through both public and private investment, a fully green energy economy, while expanding clean energy access to the energy poor (who currently rely on dirtier fuels).
4. Counties have more consistent, integrated, transparent and effective funding for climate change adaptation, and communities participate actively in prioritizing the use of that funding.
