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Kenya Climate Intelligence

Digital Center for Applied Carbon Intelligence (DCACI)

GHG Emissions (2022)
94.9MtCO2e
+15.3% vs 2021

excl. LULUCF · PRIMAP-hist v2.6

NDC Target (2030)
-32%below BAU
97.3 MtCO2e cap

7% unconditional + 25% conditional

Carbon Credits
59MtCO2e
296 projects

VCM + CDM since 2011 · $136M revenue

Climate Finance Gap
53%shortfall
$2.73B/yr gap

$2.4B flows vs $5.13B needed

Intelligence Insights

AI-powered analysis · Verified Kenya data

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Budget-NDC Misalignment: LULUCF

0.7%

of budget

LULUCF has the 2nd largest NDC target (20.8 MtCO2e) but Environment Ministry gets only KES 26.4B — 0.7% of national budget. Forest cover target requires KES 120B+.

Budget × NDC AnalysisView alignment

Article 6 Transfer Risk

585K

ITMOs pending

Pending LOAs for 585K ITMOs to Switzerland & Japan. Corresponding adjustments would reduce Kenya's reported reductions by ~0.6% of NDC target.

Registry × NDCReview LOAs

Carbon Revenue Exceeds GCF

$733M

projected

296 VCM projects could yield $733M (2025-2030) at $5.20/credit — nearly double GCF allocations to Kenya ($390M total).

Registry × FinanceExplore

Prioritize Agriculture MRV

47.4%

of emissions

Agriculture is 47.4% of emissions (44.92 MtCO2e) but relies entirely on PRIMAP-hist modeled data. Bottom-up activity data urgently needed for BTR credibility.

MRV Quality AssessmentMRV details

GHG Emissions Trajectory

Historical (1990-2022) and NDC projections to 2035

Budget vs NDC Needs

National budget allocation against NDC implementation cost by sector

NDC Sector Progress

Tracking 86.5 MtCO2e mitigation target across 6 sectors by 2030

Full NDC Tracker
Energy40.27 MtCO2e
48.1 MtCO2e reductionOff-Track
35%
LULUCFNet sink
20.8 MtCO2e reductionBehind
33%
Agriculture44.92 MtCO2e
9.7 MtCO2e reductionBehind
40%
Transport~5.7 MtCO2e
4.7 MtCO2e reductionOn-Track
68%
IPPU5.96 MtCO2e
2.4 MtCO2e reductionBehind
25%
Waste3.10 MtCO2e
0.8 MtCO2e reductionOn-Track
55%

Sector Emissions Breakdown (2022)

GHG emissions by IPCC sector, excl. LULUCF · Total: 94.25 MtCO2e

Key Climate Events

Second NDC (2031-2035) submitted to UNFCCC

30 Apr 2025NDC

Kenya National Carbon Registry launched

17 Feb 2026Registry

BTR-1 Biennial Transparency Report filed

Dec 2024MRV

Article 6 bilateral signed with Sweden

Nov 2024Registry

Kasigau REDD+ issuance: 1.8M tCO2e

Feb 2025Registry

NCCAP III (2023-2027) implementation begun

2023NDC