GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 8517

PURSUANT to section 8 (1) of the Statutory Instruments Act, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry notifies the general public that a Regulatory Impact Statement on the proposed Draft Climate Change (Carbon Trading) Regulations, 2025 and Draft Climate Change (Non-Market Approaches) Regulations, 2025 has been prepared to assess the impact of the Regulations on the public. The Draft Regulations are made by the Cabinet Secretary pursuant to sections 36 (1), (2) (bb) and (bd) of the Climate Change Act, and they operationalize salient provisions of the said Act. The objectives of the Draft Regulations are to: (a) provide a framework for the undertaking of carbon trading and related matters; and, (b) facilitate implementation and co-ordination of non-market approaches. This is therefore to request the public and all persons likely to be affected by the Draft Regulations to submit written memoranda to reach the undersigned within twenty-eight (28) days from the date of publication of this Gazette notice. The hard copies of the written memoranda may be submitted to the Office of the Principal Secretary, State Department for Environment and Climate Change, SHA Building, Ragati Road, P.O. Box 30126– 00100, Nairobi. The soft copies of the written memoranda can also be submitted to psoffice@environment.go.ke with a copy to carbontradingregulations@environment.go.ke and nonmarketapproachesregulations@environment.go.ke . The Regulatory Impact Statements and the Draft Regulations are available on the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry website: www.environment.go.ke. Dated the 4th June, 2025. DEBORAH M. BARASA, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry.