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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": "The Paris Agreement, in Article 4(2) requires each State party to prepare, communicate and maintain successive NDCs she intends to achieve. Therefore, State parties are required to pursue domestic mitigation measures with the aim of achieving the objectives of such contributions. Kenya ratified the UNFCCC in 1994; the Kyoto Protocol in 2005, and the Paris Agreement in 2016, thereby signifying our determination to join the global community in combating the problem of climate change. In her commitment to work with the international community to combat climate change, Kenya has identified mitigation options in the areas of energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management sectors, which if well implemented, would achieve the twin objectives of sustainable development and greenhouse gas emission mitigation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, those who listened to the United States Ambassador last week, while addressing congregants at the Devolution Conference in Eldoret, among the many things she said was recognition of the efforts our nation has made in terms of mitigation of climate change. While talking about green energy, she said that Kenya is among the leading countries in the world in terms of green energy production. Almost 100 per cent of our energy today is green energy from wind, solar and geothermal investments that we have made in Olkaria and Menengai, where the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining comes from in Nakuru. We have also invested a lot in wind energy where Hon. Chachu Ganya - a former Member of Parliament - and Hon. Naomi Waqo, come from. Hon. Chachu Ganya is a former Member of Parliament who was very keen on environmental matters. He hails from Marsabit County, where wind energy is one of the major sources of energy, powering big sections of our city and many other parts of our country. It is these interventions in the energy sector and in transport, where about three weeks ago, His Excellency the President commissioned the green mobility, where our boda boda riders will now access cheaper motorbikes that are powered using electric energy as opposed to fossil fuel energy that degrades our environment. It is these efforts, including the other big efforts that are geared towards re-afforestation around our country that give Kenya carbon credits. I must take this opportunity to thank Hon. John Kiarie, who at the beginning of this Session of Parliament, moved a Motion that required that as contractors build roads around our country, they make sure that they plant trees as compensation for the trees they destroy along the corridors where they undertake the road works. This should not just apply to road contractors but even to contractors building dams because they also uproot a lot of vegetation and trees in the course of their work. We should now make it compulsory for contractors who degrade the environment to plant trees. These are the efforts we are talking about in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emission and mitigation measures that the country has taken. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Kenya was among the first African countries to develop a stand- alone climate change Act - the Climate Change Act, 2016 - which anticipated a horizontal integration through the National Climate Change Council to provide, among others, an overarching legal and policy framework for climate change. This framework also provides for a vertical integration that requires every sector and institution whose function impacts climate change to incorporate climate change into its regular assignments. However, the National Climate Change Council has not been operationalised since 2016 because of the process of how it was to be composed. There has also been several court cases since 2016 regarding who have been proposed to be members of the Council. Hon. Members are aware of many of the cases. This Bill, in Clause 6, proposes an amendment to retain the composition of the Council from the various sectors, but it takes away the nominating powers of the representative bodies in the sectors. In a way, this will address the problem of sibling rivalry among players in the 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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