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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the ratification of the Kigali Amendments on the Montreal Protocol on the Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. We are very fast in rectifying, amending and asking for ratification of treaties and protocols from Parliament. The question really is: What are we going to do about it? What are the implementation plans? How are we going to protect our ozone layer? Is someone going to tell us we have some finds available and want to do a, b and c? Sometimes, we are taken up by all these ratifications or particular conventions, which are very important, without actually doing what is required for implementation. Do we have an organization, unit or a department within the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry that keeps a record and looks at the destruction or whether we have developed holes in the ozone layer above the Kenyan atmosphere? What can we do about it? How are we going to work with other partners in the international initiative to protect the depletion of the ozone layer? Some countries have banned the use of refrigeration gas such as nonfluorine. Here, it has not happened because we are behind time. We use the old refrigerators that are sent to us from the dumping yards of the western world and the new ones which are not ozone friendly. What is happening to our air conditioning systems? The gases generated from air conditioning units damage the ozone layer. How are we controlling this? Is there a body that is going around and says: ‘Hold on, your particular house or organization is dispensing so much of nonfluorine gas to the atmosphere which is going to affect the ozone layer?’ The idea is good. Unfortunately, I have not seen the implementation. I want to see how we can implement it. We cannot have all these ratifications without the implementation plan. Somebody needs to look at this. In developed and other developing countries, there are groups and caucuses that are monitoring the ozone layer. I wonder if anybody in this House knows the content and depth of the ozone layer. Whether we are covered or in a dangerous spot. I wonder if anyone of us knows whether the ozone layer is a fixed layer above us or if it is a floating air that goes round and round the world. Those are the sort of issues that we need to know. We have the Kenya Nuclear Regulatory Authority (KNRA) and many other authorities. Why does the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry not come up and do the same sort of things they are doing for others and say: ‘This is the amount you are disposing and damaging the ozone layer? These are the products that should not be allowed. These are waste polluters and the polluters must pay?’ We also have to put together a proposal. If there The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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