Climate risk, ESG compliance, and sustainability reporting for institutions preparing for Kenya’s next regulatory shift
We help banks, SACCOs, insurers, listed companies, small and medium enterprises, investors, and leadership teams understand what is required, assess where they currently stand, and build practical reporting and compliance systems that can stand up to regulator, board, lender, and investor scrutiny.
Assessed across 6 pillars and 36 questions, benchmarked to CBK CRDF and IFRS S1/S2.
Years advising on climate, clean energy, and sustainability across Africa
Countries where we have delivered projects across Africa, Asia, and South America
Integrated practice areas spanning climate, energy, natural resources, and green finance
Development-finance and government institutions that have trusted our work
The requirements are already taking shape
Climate and ESG expectations are arriving from several directions at once. Understanding which ones apply to your institution is the first step towards a practical response.
Central Bank of Kenya
Climate risk expectations for banks, SACCOs, microfinance banks, and other regulated institutions.
IFRS S1 & S2
Global standards for sustainability and climate-related financial disclosure now being adopted in Kenya.
Nairobi Securities Exchange
ESG disclosure guidance that listed companies are increasingly expected to follow.
Lenders, investors, and buyers
Climate and ESG due diligence is quickly becoming a standard part of financing and procurement.
Climate disclosure is becoming a business requirement, not a public relations exercise
Across Kenya, climate risk and ESG expectations are beginning to affect how institutions are governed, financed, assessed, and trusted. Banks are being expected to understand climate exposure in their lending books. Listed companies are being asked to disclose ESG information more clearly. Small and medium enterprises are beginning to face ESG questions from lenders, buyers, investors, and development partners. Boards are being asked to show oversight, and chief financial officers and risk teams are being expected to produce evidence rather than assumptions.
For many institutions, the challenge is not a lack of interest. The challenge is knowing how to translate broad climate and ESG expectations into a practical internal system that actually works. A sustainability report on its own is no longer enough if the business cannot show how the information was gathered, who owns the data, how climate risk affects strategy, and how leadership is using that information to make decisions.
We help institutions move from fragmented ESG activity to a structured readiness process that connects regulation, governance, data, reporting, finance, and risk management into one coherent approach.
A citadel of resilience and sustainability, built over more than two decades
Climate & Energy Advisory (C&E) is a leading Kenyan consultancy specialising in sustainable clean energy projects, climate change solutions, and green growth development. For more than twenty-seven years we have delivered innovative and resilient solutions for communities and institutions across Africa and beyond.
We handle work from end to end, combining project management, capacity building, training, policy implementation, and community empowerment. That same rigour, evidence, and methodology now sits behind our climate risk and ESG readiness platform, made practical for banks, SACCOs, insurers, listed companies, and the businesses they serve.
Climate Change Solutions
Adaptation, mitigation, climate finance, policy and strategy development, risk assessment, and monitoring and evaluation at community, sector, national, and regional level.
Clean Energy Development
Sustainable biomass energy planning, solar system design and installation, clean cooking fuel and technology assessments, and consumer financing for rural energy.
Natural Resource Management
REDD and REDD+ forestry projects, climate-smart agriculture, land use and forestry, and value chain development that conserve biodiversity and open access to carbon markets.
Green Growth and Green Finance
Green principles, green technologies, and green project development that mobilise public and private capital into clean, low-carbon growth in support of national climate commitments.
Trusted by leading development, climate, and government institutions
Over more than two decades, C&E Advisory has built strong working relationships with bilateral and multilateral agencies, governments, and development organisations, with project experience in more than thirty countries.
Eastern Africa
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, South Sudan
Southern Africa
Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho
Western Africa
Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Chad, DRC, Togo
Asia & South America
Brazil, Nepal, and Suriname
Selected clients and partners
We help institutions understand, prepare for, and respond to climate and ESG requirements
We work end to end — from the first honest assessment of where you stand to the systems, evidence, and reporting that keep you compliant year after year.
We begin with clarity
We assess your current climate risk and ESG readiness, identify the specific regulatory, investor, lender, or board expectations that apply to your organisation, and develop a practical roadmap for implementation that reflects your context.
We help you build the systems
We put in place the tools, policies, dashboards, reports, training, and governance structures needed to manage climate and ESG obligations with confidence — from board reporting and climate risk policies to ESG data systems and IFRS S1 and S2 readiness.
We make it credible and repeatable
The goal is not to overwhelm your team with frameworks. It is to help you understand what matters, what is missing, what must be done first, and how to turn climate and ESG requirements into a business process that stands up to scrutiny.
Built for institutions that need practical climate and ESG readiness
Climate and ESG requirements do not affect every institution in the same way. We tailor our work to the questions each type of organisation is being asked to answer.
Banks and Financial Institutions
Banks, SACCOs, microfinance institutions, digital lenders, and fund managers are increasingly expected to understand how climate risk affects borrowers, sectors, portfolios, collateral, and credit quality. We help them assess readiness, design climate risk governance, map portfolio exposure, build borrower ESG assessment tools, and prepare board reports aligned to emerging regulation.
Listed Companies and Public Interest Entities
Listed companies and public interest entities face growing expectations around ESG disclosure, sustainability reporting, and climate-related financial information. We support them to assess disclosure gaps, prepare for IFRS S1 and S2, develop credible sustainability reports, strengthen board oversight, and align reporting with local and international frameworks.
SMEs and Growth Companies
For small and medium enterprises, ESG readiness is becoming part of access to finance, procurement, and investment. We help these businesses understand what ESG means in practical terms, assess their readiness, prepare documentation, improve governance, and build simple reporting systems that support funding and long-term resilience.
Boards and Leadership Teams
Boards are expected to provide oversight on material risks, and climate risk is increasingly part of that responsibility. We help boards and leadership teams understand their obligations, review current readiness, define governance responsibilities, establish reporting routines, and make climate risk a genuine part of strategic and risk oversight.
Investors, Accelerators, and Development Programmes
Investors, funders, accelerators, and development partners increasingly need to assess ESG and climate readiness across their portfolios, particularly in climate-exposed sectors. We provide ESG readiness scoring, portfolio diagnostics, due diligence tools, capacity-building programmes, and reporting frameworks that support better decision-making.
Designed to move you from awareness to implementation
Each engagement is built to produce something your institution can use — a diagnosis, a plan, a system, a report, or the evidence behind it.
Climate Risk Readiness Diagnostic
A clear, structured view of where your institution stands across governance, data, reporting, policies, risk management, board oversight, and regulatory exposure — with a readiness score, priority gaps, and recommended next steps.
IFRS S1 and S2 Readiness Assessment
We help you assess readiness for sustainability and climate-related financial disclosure, identify data gaps, map material risks, review governance, and develop a phased implementation plan you can actually follow.
CBK Climate Risk Implementation Support
We translate climate risk expectations into practical internal frameworks — climate risk policies, board governance structures, portfolio exposure mapping, sector risk tools, management reporting templates, and implementation roadmaps.
ESG and Sustainability Reporting
We identify material issues, gather the underlying data, validate the evidence, structure the disclosures, and present credible reports that are genuinely useful to boards, investors, regulators, and lenders.
ESG Data and Evidence Systems
We design simple ESG data systems, responsibility matrices, reporting calendars, evidence folders, and internal controls so that ESG reporting becomes a repeatable routine rather than a rushed annual effort.
Board and Management Reporting Packs
We design board-ready climate and ESG reporting packs covering exposure, compliance status, key risks, progress, data gaps, and the decisions required — built for board committees, audit and risk committees, and executive teams.
SME ESG and Climate Readiness Scoring
We provide practical ESG and climate readiness scoring for small and medium enterprises, borrowers, suppliers, and investees, helping banks, investors, and corporates assess where businesses stand and what support they need.
Start with a Climate Risk Readiness Diagnostic
Before your institution invests in a sustainability report, ESG software, a climate policy, board training, or a full compliance programme, it needs a clear view of its current position. The Climate Risk Readiness Diagnostic is designed to help you understand your exposure, your obligations, your gaps, and your priorities.
The diagnostic reviews your organisation across governance, strategy, risk management, reporting, data, compliance, and financial impact. It helps your team answer the questions that matter most, including which climate and ESG expectations apply to you, what information you already have, what is missing, who owns the process internally, what the board needs to know, and what you should prioritise over the next ninety days.
At the end of the process, you receive a practical report that can be used with confidence by management, boards, compliance teams, chief financial officers, risk officers, investors, or funders.
What you receive
- A climate and ESG readiness score for your institution
- A regulatory and stakeholder exposure map
- A gap analysis across governance, data, reporting, and risk management
- A practical ninety-day action plan
- A concise board-level summary the board can act on
- A recommended implementation roadmap
A practical, finance-aware, and governance-led approach
We understand that climate risk and ESG reporting cannot be treated as a side project. For Kenyan and African institutions, these requirements sit inside a wider business reality that includes limited data, lean teams, evolving regulation, investor pressure, cost constraints, genuine climate vulnerability, and a growing demand for credible reporting.
Our approach is practical, finance-aware, and governance-led. We help organisations understand what is required, but we also help them build the internal systems needed to respond. We do not simply prepare attractive reports; we help create the evidence, the structures, and the routines that stand behind the report and give it authority.
We are especially useful to institutions that need a partner who can speak to the board, the chief financial officer, the compliance team, the risk team, the lender, the investor, and the small business owner in language that each of them can understand.
Many ESG solutions begin with frameworks. We begin with the institution.
We look at your business model, your regulatory exposure, your financing needs, your governance structure, your data maturity, your climate exposure, and the stakeholders who are most likely to ask you questions. From there, we help you build a practical response that fits your context rather than a generic checklist.
This matters because climate and ESG requirements will not affect every institution in the same way. A bank needs to understand portfolio risk. A listed company needs credible disclosure. A small business needs to be ready for lenders and buyers. A board needs meaningful oversight. An investor needs comparable portfolio data. A funder needs evidence of both impact and risk management. Our work is designed around those realities.
Know where you stand before the questions become urgent
Climate risk and ESG reporting are becoming part of how institutions are assessed by regulators, lenders, investors, boards, customers, and partners. Waiting until a report is due, a lender asks for documentation, or a board requests answers creates unnecessary pressure on your team.
The better starting point is to understand your current readiness, identify the most important gaps, and build a practical roadmap before that pressure arrives.