Climate Change Act, 2016 (No. 11 of 2016).

This Act shall be applied for the development, management, implementation and regulation of mechanisms to enhance climate change resilience and low carbon development for the sustainable development of Kenya. The Act places duties on the national government and county governments to mainstream climate change responses into development planning, decision making and implementation and to respond in various other ways to climate change. The Act sets out principles of climate change planning and implementation of measures. The National Climate Change Council is established as an unincorporated body. The Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for environment and climate change affairs shall be the secretary to the Council. The Council shall provide an overarching national climate change coordination mechanism. It shall, among other things, approve and oversee implementation of the National Climate Change Action Plan. The Act also establishes a Climate Change Directorate and a Climate Change Fund. The Directorate shall be the lead agency of the government on national climate change plans and actions to deliver operational coordination and shall report to the Cabinet Secretary. The Directorate shall be headed by a Director of Climate Change.
The Cabinet Secretary shall formulate a National Climate Change Action Plan. The Council may, on recommendation of the Cabinet Secretary and in consultation with relevant Cabinet Secretaries and county government, impose duties relating to climate change on any public entity at all levels of government and on private entities. The Council shall make regulations governing the nature and procedure for reporting on performance by private entities, including the authority to monitor and evaluate compliance. The Council, on the recommendation of the Cabinet Secretary shall each year identify priority strategies and actions of disaster risk reduction related to climate change. The Act also provides with respect to public participation and access to information and intergenerational and gender equity in all aspects of climate change responses.
The National Environmental Management Monitoring Authority shall on behalf of the Council: monitor, investigate and report on compliance and the assigned climate change duties; regulate, enforce and monitor compliance on levels of greenhouse gas emissions as set by the Council under this Act.