Transport Sector Climate Change Annual Report 2018- Kenya

Transport Sector Climate Change Annual Report 2018- Kenya Performance and Implementation of Climate Change Actions

Kenya has experienced the effects of climate change in many sectors of the economy including transport. Prolonged droughts with negative effects on agriculture, followed by heavy downpours with surface run-offs leading to damaged road infrastructure that paralyze transport services. lt is in view of this that the country enacted the Climate Change Act in 2016. The Act provides the overall governance structure for climate change in Kenya. lt has the necessary mechanisms to support development and implementation of specific activities to enhance climate change adaptation and mitigation actions for sustainable development. lt helps the country to implement Paris Agreement requirements.

The State Department for Transport has put in place necessary programme to enhance implementation of identified mitigation and adaptation actions. This includes regular measurements, verifications and reporting of climate change actions through annual documentation on performance and progress within the transport sector as required by the Climate Change Act.

This report has been prepared by the Climate Change Unit of the State Depart- ment for Transport with the support from the Advancing Transport Climate Strat- egies “TraCS” project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusam- menarbeit (GIZ). The report includes a detailed list of prioritized mitigation and adaptation actions, the sector’s greenhouse gas emission profile and sectoral support gaps for climate change actions.

The transport sector is committed to implement its outlined actions and mea- sures in pursuit of a low carbon climate resilient development pathway. l there- fore call upon all the sector stakeholders, including development partners and private sector players, to support the transport sector to implement its low car- bon actions as well as its efforts to develop a sectoral climate change strategy and action plan. Continued cooperation and joint efforts towards both moni- toring and implementation of the actions, will be key to achieving the transport sector’s NDC target.

Esther Koimett, CBS

Principal Secretary
State Department for Transport