NAIROBI, Kenya, July 10 – Members of Parliament have called for accelerated action to help mitigate the growing climate crisis in the country. The lawmakers were speaking during the second Kenya Parliamentary Green Investment Dialogue to chart a new path for climate action.

📻 Breaking It Down

Contributing to the deliberations in sessions held earlier today, the over 20 legislators participating in the forum expressed the need to move from policy planning to tangible project deployment and tech-driven accountability.

The 3-day forum held under the banner “From Policy to Pipeline: Advancing Clean Energy Investment in Kenya,” in Kisumu City has brought together Parliamentarians, climate experts, and development partners.

Opening the workshop at the Acacia Premier Hotel, Hon. Charity Kathambi Chepkwony, emphasized that political rhetoric is no longer sufficient to combat the growing climate crisis. She underscored that successful local climate mitigation requires community buy-in and structured collaboration.

📌 What You Need to Know

“We gather here at a moment that marks a deliberate shift from awareness and exploration to action and accountability in Kenya’s green investment agenda,” noted Hon. Kathambi.

“Political goodwill alone does not move projects from paper to pipeline. We must build structured, investment-ready preparation and support it with mechanisms that de-risk projects”, Hon. Kathambi added.

She cited practical frameworks such as County Integrated Development Plans and Climate Action Plans as essential tools for verifying local project pipelines, calling for the private sector, county governments, and Parliament to break down silos to attract blended and concessional finance.

The recurring theme at the high-level event was the urgent need to move from awareness to delivery by leveraging innovative data technologies to strengthen parliamentary oversight and scale green infrastructure investments across Kenya’s counties.

While noting that expedited action was necessary to unlock climate financing, she called on the workshop participants to broaden their understanding of the global climate finance landscape, carbon markets, local green energy initiatives, and the emerging green investment opportunities that the county can engage in.

“Engaging directly with investors, financial institutions, and development partners, including the Green Climate Fund, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the Climate Parliament, has shaped our thinking. This underscores the need to develop bankable projects that can attract climate financing”, she remarked.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya