Generating robust, quantitative evidence on the health, social, and economic co-benefits of priority climate mitigation actions in Kenya’s energy, transport, and environmental sectors.
CLIMA generates robust, quantitative evidence on the health, social, and economic co-benefits of priority climate mitigation actions in Kenya’s energy, transport, and environmental sectors — turning mitigation scenarios into evidence decision-makers can act on.
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Kenya has developed comprehensive climate mitigation strategies across energy, transport, and environmental sectors under its National Climate Change Action Plan 2023–2027.
It lacks a comprehensive framework to routinely monitor and quantify the health co-benefits of current or future mitigation actions — evidence needed to access financing and drive climate action.
Systematically identify and characterize priority climate mitigation interventions aligned with Kenya’s National Climate Change Action Plan 2023–2027.
Establish comprehensive environmental monitoring to measure air quality changes resulting from mitigation interventions.
Deploy high-resolution atmospheric modelling to quantify sector-specific air quality using the LOTOS-EUROS chemical transport model.
Conduct integrated health impact assessment quantifying multisectoral health, social, and economic co-benefits of climate mitigation actions.
Establish robust governance structures to drive climate and health thought leadership, knowledge generation, and policy translation.
See how these objectives translate into our five work packages.
Explore our approachA comprehensive approach spanning identification, monitoring, modelling, impact assessment, and policy translation.
Identification and characterization of priority climate mitigation interventions.
Environmental exposure measurements linked to climate mitigation actions.
Air quality modelling built on a novel, high-resolution emission inventory.
Modelling and synthesizing the multisectoral health, social, and economic impacts of air pollution.
Transdisciplinary knowledge generation and translation into actionable climate policy.
See the full breakdown of every work package and lead institution.
Explore work packagesThe project is conducted in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area
Representing challenges common across rapidly urbanizing African cities while providing diverse geography from urban core to peri-urban settlements for assessing intervention impacts across varied socio-economic contexts.
Collaborating with leading institutions and organizations across Africa and beyond
University of Nairobi
A centre of excellence supporting government health decision-making.
Air Pollution Centre of Excellence, coordinating Kenya's Air Pollution, Energy and Health and Climate Change and Health Technical Working Groups.
Industry leader in East Africa air quality solutions including sensor technologies.
Leading air quality modelling organization.