{
    "name": "AI Policy Radar",
    "publisher": "Green Diplomat",
    "description": "Climate laws and carbon-pricing instruments classified by legal stage; every record cites the document it was checked against and the date of that check.",
    "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "citation": "Green Diplomat (2026). AI Policy Radar: a verified tracker of climate laws by legal stage. https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/ (accessed 6 October 2026).",
    "generated": "2026-10-06T04:02:14+00:00",
    "count": 1,
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        "jurisdiction": "Country or sub-national jurisdiction that adopted the instrument.",
        "iso3": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country.",
        "instrument_type": "Emissions trading system, carbon tax, framework law, target law, crediting mechanism, energy-transition law, disclosure / MRV rule.",
        "legal_stage": "In force · Enacted, not yet in force · In rulemaking · Proposed / announced · No binding instrument.",
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        "source_url": "Address of that document.",
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        "legal_journey": "Dated milestones (proposed, enacted, rulemaking, in force, later milestone), each with its own source. JSON and journeys.csv only."
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            "record_id": "ke-carbon-markets",
            "jurisdiction": "Kenya",
            "iso3": "KEN",
            "country": "Kenya",
            "instrument_type": "Crediting mechanism",
            "legal_stage": "In force",
            "stage_date": "2023-09-15",
            "legal_reference": "Climate Change Act (Cap. 387A; No. 11 of 2016), Part IVA inserted by the Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act No. 9 of 2023); Climate Change (Carbon Markets) Regulations, 2024",
            "coverage": "Carbon-market projects and transactions: bilateral or multilateral agreements, trades with private entities and voluntary markets",
            "summary": "Kenya's Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023 inserted a Part IVA on the regulation of carbon markets into the Climate Change Act, effective 15 September 2023. It governs participation in carbon markets, requires environmental and social impact assessment and benefit sharing for carbon projects, and establishes a carbon registry; detailed regulations followed in May 2024.",
            "what_to_watch": "Authorisations under bilateral Article 6 agreements, the operation of the national carbon registry, and the application of benefit-sharing rules to carbon projects.",
            "source_name": "Kenya Law — Climate Change Act, Cap. 387A, consolidated as at 15 September 2023 (FAOLEX copy)",
            "source_url": "https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/ken160982.pdf",
            "source_type": "reference",
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            "last_verified": "2026-10-04",
            "region": "Africa",
            "topics": [
                "Carbon Markets",
                "Climate Law"
            ],
            "url": "https://greendiplomat.com/ai-policy-radar/ke-carbon-markets/",
            "legal_journey": [
                {
                    "date": "2016-05-06",
                    "milestone": "enacted",
                    "event": "Climate Change Act assented to; commenced 27 May 2016",
                    "source_url": "https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/ken160982.pdf"
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                {
                    "date": "2023-09-15",
                    "milestone": "in-force",
                    "event": "Climate Change (Amendment) Act 2023 adds carbon market rules to the Act",
                    "source_url": "https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/ken160982.pdf"
                },
                {
                    "date": "2024-05-17",
                    "milestone": "milestone",
                    "event": "Climate Change (Carbon Markets) Regulations 2024 published and in force",
                    "source_url": "https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/act/ln/2024/84/eng@2024-06-07"
                }
            ]
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}