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Report

Abstract

Climate Change is the most serious global challenge of our time. Kenya signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 12 June 1992, and ratified it on 30 August 1994. It also ratified Kyoto Protocol on 25 February 2005 which entered into force on 26 May 2005. As a Party to the Convention, Kenya has implemented initiatives to meet its obligations and commitments, including the development of its First National Communication (FNC) that was prepared in 2002 with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The FNC included preparation of a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory for the reference year 1994 in compliance with Articles 4 and 12 of the UNFCCC and in accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines of 1996. While the FNC provided a good description of the country’s circumstances and a basis for future studies on climate change, gaps in and paucity of data significantly constrained the quality of the GHG inventory work for the base year 1994. The FNC also reported the results of initial studies on the country’s vulnerability to climate change.

Publication Date

2015

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