President William Ruto and California Governor Gavin Newsom witnessed the signing of a Historic deal by Trade Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui that will see Nairobi host a one-of-a-kind green centre in Africa.
The pact, dubbed the California–Africa Climate and Economic Partnership, will see Kenya and especially Nairobi, collaborate with the American State on a sustainable way to run sectors like transport and electric mobility, green ports, and climate-smart agriculture and resilient food systems.
They will also collaborate in areas of renewable energy and green infrastructure, digital innovation, and climate adaptation.
The deal was signed on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and was also witnessed by Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.
As part of the agreement, Nairobi will benefit from this partnership by hosting Africa's first Centre of Excellence on Clean Transport Systems in Africa.
The centre will serve as a hub for innovation and knowledge sharing across the African continent.
The Memorandum of Understanding with California makes Kenya the only African country to reach such an agreement with California, the world's fourth-largest economy.
This is the latest agreement Kenya has made with a first-world nation in a bid to build a safe, clean, and green urban environment where people can move with dignity, live affordably, and access opportunity in Nairobi.
Just two months ago, in July, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja joined the President in London, United Kingdom, to renew a strategic partnership set to bring to life the Nairobi Railway City (NRC).
Ruto held talks with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which renewed the two nations' partnership to transform Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) with the establishment of a modern transportation hub.
Aside from streamlining the daily commute in Nairobi, the project will include new platforms, a central square, retail space, and green urban zones.
Sitting on 425 acres of land within the CBD, the project will modernise Nairobi's Central Station, improve connectivity, and support over two million daily commuters once complete.
