Introduction
Climate Finance (CF) is critical to Kenya’s full realisation of the policy goals as set out in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the 2015 Paris Agreement and the African Union Agenda 2063. An effective response to the challenge of climate change requires robust financial mechanisms to put in place systems, initiatives and programmes supportive to mitigation and adaptation measures. As global climate policy implementation progresses under the Paris Agreement, there has been an increased realisation that developing African countries such as Kenya will require effective and enabling financial and technical support. The new era of climate change under the Paris Agreement has strived to correct this by establishing more flexible funding such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and support windows to integrate the needs of all developing countries in the funding process. Countries also have the opportunity to draw from additional emerging funding windows outside the UNFCCC, including bilateral grants and loans, green bonds and climate change trust funds at national at subnational level. Based on the experiences and achievements so far, Kenya has a huge opportunity to build a more robust climate finance mechanism taking advantage of its global networks and linkages, ensuring political success and learning lessons on what has been achieved so far. This policy brief provides some pointers climate financing strategies for Kenya based on the country’s experiences up to the present day.