Climate and Development Outlook

The document details CDKN's support for Kenya's climate goals, highlighting the impact of the 2016 Climate Change Act and the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP). Key achievements include a 140 MW increase in geothermal energy in 2015, the development of the CaRROT tool for the flower sector, and the submission of four proposals to the Green Climate Fund. It also discusses the 'Raising Risk Awareness' initiative for extreme event attribution and efforts to integrate water, energy, and food (WEF) security planning at the county level.

• The Climate Change Act, passed in May 2016, provides a regulatory framework that strengthens governance and the integration of climate change into sectoral budgeting and planning, while guiding Kenya's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
• Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) identifies six 'big wins' for mitigation and adaptation: geothermal power, distributed clean energy, water resource management, forest restoration, climate-smart agriculture/agroforestry, and infrastructure. Geothermal production saw a 140 MW increase in 2015, lowering electricity tariffs.
• To address the demand for carbon-efficient produce in the EU, the Horticultural Crops Development Authority and the Kenya Flower Council created the Carbon Reduction, Resources and Opportunities Toolkit (CaRROT), which tracks energy, water, and carbon for the flower sector.
• CDKN supported the expansion of geothermal capacity by piloting a drilling risk insurance product for Kenyan and Ethiopian markets to reduce the high exploration costs that hinder private sector financing.
• Efforts to implement an integrated water, energy, and food (WEF) nexus approach in three Kenyan counties revealed that budget constraints and tensions between national and county governance levels hamper sustainable growth.
• CDKN assisted the Kenyan government in mobilising climate finance by training 30 officials on Green Climate Fund (GCF) modalities and supporting the submission of four adaptation proposals to the GCF.
• The 'Raising Risk Awareness' initiative used extreme event attribution science to study the 2016-2017 drought in Kenya to help policy-makers manage extreme weather risks.

APA

Kamau, M., McNamara, L., & Baker, E. (2017). Climate and Development Outlook. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/KENYA_Outlook_Final_WEB-.pdf

Chicago

Kamau, Margaret, Lisa McNamara, and Emma Baker. Climate and Development Outlook. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2017. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/KENYA_Outlook_Final_WEB-.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{kamau2017climate, author = {Kamau, Margaret and McNamara, Lisa and Baker, Emma}, title = {{Climate and Development Outlook}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2017}, month = jul, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/KENYA_Outlook_Final_WEB-.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }