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How carbon credits can catalyse our energy transition financing

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Global Campaigns Associate of Tearfund Jessica Bwali at Ufungamano states African multi-faith position on the Need to finance climate to mitigate loss and damage. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

I recently took part in a Pan African Climate Change Earth Summit hosted at the Kenya Wildlife Service. While observing the discussions, the pressing need to innovatively finance transition to clean energy became evident to me, hence these thoughts.

Last year in Kenya, 700,000 new customers were connected to the electricity grid, marking a significant stride toward connecting every Kenyan to the grid.

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