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Kenya will spend close to seven trillion shillings to implement a raft of measures aimed at cutting down its greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the nationally determined contributions blueprint released on Wednesday, the new plan will take effect from January 2031 to December 2035.
The 2nd NDC blueprint was submitted to the United Nations framework convention on climate change on 30th of April 2025, hours before the UN imposed deadline to submit the blueprint expired.
According to a statement from the ministry of environment, Kenya will internally contribute 270 billion shillings annually from 2031 to 2035 for mitigation and adaptation measures to lower emissions by 75.25 Million tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (MtCO2eq).
The country will focus on international support, including finance, investments, technology development and transfer, capacity building, as well as participation in carbon markets to achieve the remaining 80% funding.
The statement say the NDC will be revised to align with the country’s forthcoming Long-Term Development Vision which is under development to replace the Vision 2030, which lapses in five years-time.
The first nationally determined contributions was revised in 2020, five years after the original draft was submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The document had set an ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 32% by 2030 compared to the business-as-usual scenario. Kenya had outlined a 62 billion dollar budget target to achieve the ambitious plan.
However the plan has faced many challenges including lack of financing and budget cuts due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic meltdown caused by supply chain disruption due to Covid-19, Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine.
Under the current NDC Kenya aims to invest more in renewable energy, sustainable land use, ecosystems and nature-based solutions, smart agriculture, green infrastructure and urban development among others interventions.
Under the updated NDC Kenya seeks to deploy innovation and technology in keys sectors such as health, agriculture, infrastructural development and education.
The document also talks about public-private partnerships to drive green investments. In accordance with Article 4, paragraph 12 of the Paris Agreement, there are 214 Countries that have submitted their 10 year plans to the NDC registry.
The plans are supposed to be update after every five years. In 2023, Kenya launched a five year National Climate Change Action Plan III that elapses in 2027.
The document is a planning tool to help in the implementation of the NDC measures aligned with vision 2030 and the Climate Change Act, 2023.
The ministry of environment says the updated plan-2031-2035 is expected to drive transformative economic development, innovation, and inclusive growth across key sectors of the Kenyan economy.
