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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, we will ensure that we have truly actualised the real intents of the Paris Agreement, especially Article 6 that speaks to great length on issues of sustainable development and alleviation of poverty. It will ensure that trade in carbon credits is done in line with the Paris Agreement and with the goal of ensuring sustainable development in our countries. The trade will also be done with the singular objective of alleviating poverty among our people and ensuring that nobody takes advantage of poor people, many of whom help us in conserving the environment and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They are the people planting trees in our backyards and school compounds. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I must take this opportunity to commend the Government, especially the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, for its plans to roll out tree planting and development of tree nurseries in our schools. This will ensure that we train our children on how to safeguard the environment and to be environmental conservation and climate change advocates against the abuse of the environment. In the next two weeks, we will be hosting the Africa Summit on Climate Change. It will be a big event that will be attended by over 20 Heads of State and Government and about 17,000 delegates, who are bound to descend on the City of Nairobi. Therefore, this Bill has been brought at a prime time. I hope and pray it will be enacted into law before the Climate Change Summit that will take place from 4th to 6th September 2023. Hopefully, His Excellency the President will assent to this Bill either just before the opening of the Climate Change Summit or at the Summit itself. The Summit will be a monumental opportunity for him to assent it into an Act of Parliament as he officially opens it. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to invite all Member of Parliament to take note of the Summit dates and make themselves available. I know we will be on recess, in line with our Calendar, and I urge the Members who will be in Nairobi to take time and attend the Summit and learn how to take advantage of tree-planting and sinking of boreholes in their constituencies, among other mitigation measures against climate change to earn money not just for themselves, but also for their constituents. Many Members of Parliament are also business people and, therefore, they can also take advantage because they have the means to engage in climate control mitigation measures that can earn them carbon credits and they can trade in and make a little more money for themselves, their families and constituents. With those many remarks, I beg to move and request the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining, the Member for Nakuru Town East, to second."
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