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  • In the recent fifth assessment report of the United Nations (UN) Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists indicated that the emission of greenhouse gas (GHG) must peak, plateau and begin to decline by 2020 if Kenya wants to achieve the 2015 ambitions of the Paris Agreement of keeping the global temperatures to a level well below 2°C, and to a further 1.5 °C. The energy sector plays a significant role in the GHG emissions. Thus, limiting warming to the desired levels requires deep and long-lasting changes in energy and industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Credible climate efforts will thus need to ensure that the sector is fully decarbonized to achieve net zero emissions. Resultantly, the international community has significantly increased its investment in the Renewable Energy (RE) sector over the last decade or so. Kenya has been touted as one of the most progressive in the region as far as development of RE policies and attracting investment in the sector is concerned. As a result, renewables currently account for a major portion of the country’s generation mix. With the global attention to fast track climate mitigation efforts especially through divestment from fossil fuels to RE sector, the issue of a just transition has come to the core of international policy debate, driven mainly by trade unions and civil society organizations (CSOs) from across the globe. However, the just transition concept has not yet received the due attention that it ought to have received by now, both in existing renewable energy policies as well as strategies, arguably due to the ‘abstract’ nature of how this call for justice could practically be implemented.