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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": "unacceptable. Individuals can encourage communities to plant more trees so that they can be earners of the carbon credit. However, the Government needs to play a bigger role in earning whatever is received from the carbon credit so that it can re-invest the proceeds to check the climate and handle environmental issues that happen in this country. On forests, we were pleased. When we put across some questions to the nominees, for example, we had a question about planting the 15 billion trees, Professor Odera said it is okay but advised that Parliament should be informed by science when it comes to decision-making. Let us not just make decisions based on our hearts and heads. We should allow science to also guide us when we are making decisions. One of the issues that he spoke to was that it is a good idea to have 15 billion trees. However, planting 15 billion trees means that you have already covered half of your country with trees. Where will you take your people? That is a question that we need to ask. Secondly, he said that if we manage to plant the 15 billion trees that we so ambitiously want to plant, what would happen in case of forest fires? Currently, almost half of our forests have been destroyed because of fires. Forest fires are started by human beings. We will become the biggest emitters of the same thing that we are trying to avoid. He was telling us that as we plant the 15 billion trees, we must put in place enough measures to address forest fires. The President is the Chairperson of the National Climate Change Council and his Deputy is the Vice-Chairperson. You can imagine how important that is. That is why one of the nominees did not prove to us that they could go along in that direction. With those few remarks, I beg to move and call upon Hon. Charles Kamuren, my Vice- Chairperson, to second."
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