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"content": "already logged-in, acknowledging their decision to participate in the African Climate Change Summit. At the same time, I would like to disagree with one of our local media houses, which has castigated our Head of State in an article they published recently claiming that the Summit is being propelled and engineered by foreigners for their own interests. They are wrong. I hope the media will attend the Summit from 4th to 6th September 2023 so that they can see the input of our Head of State and the interest he has for this country and Africa. We consume the carbon emissions that are emitted by most of the developed countries but, of course, we cannot just sit, as the Head of State indicated, and complain. We must, as a continent and as a country, address the emerging issues on climate change and climate change mitigation. Of course, I do not want to remind Kenyans of the just-ended longest drought that this country has experienced since Independence. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this amendment Bill seeks to facilitate participation in the mitigation of green gas emission by authorised public and private entities. It also seeks to ensure that carbon trading projects undergo an environmental and social impact assessment. For anybody who would like to enter into carbon market trading, they must undergo an environment and social impact assessment through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). Thirdly, the Bill seeks to ensure that a land-based project is implemented through a community development agreement. This is key. Foreigners and investors from other countries have been disadvantaging our people. This Bill seeks to bring into force a community development agreement that will give birth to sharing of the proceeds that will be realised from our investment. Lastly, the Bill provides a benefit-sharing mechanism to ensure that proceeds from carbon credit trading are shared between project proponents and the impacted communities in a fair manner. As the Leader of the Majority Party indicated, a designated authority will be formed by the Cabinet Secretary, and it will be in charge of all these aspects. Hon. Deputy Speaker, my Committee undertook public participation. It placed an advertisement in the print media on 16th August 2023, requesting for comments and submission of memoranda from members of the public and other relevant stakeholders, pursuant to Article 118(1)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya and Standing Order 127(3). As the Leader of the Majority Party indicated, the advert attracted a number of stakeholders from the private sector, civil society organisations and individuals. I would like to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for specifically mentioning Hon. Chachu Ganya, who came to the Committee meeting in person to give his side of the story because he has been at the forefront of carbon credit matters and climate change for a long time. Now that he is out of Parliament, he is able to prosecute that initiative. One of the issues Hon. Ganya brought to us to consider - which was missing in this amendment Bill - is that there are already players in the business of carbon market trading, who will be scared of the transition period once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament and comes into force. He was scared because there was no specific transition clause to cater for the time they are accredited to do business to the time when this amendment Bill becomes law. Of course, as a Committee, we will be bringing an amendment to accommodate what Hon. Chachu Ganya proposed. Individual civil society organisations and players from the Private Sector Alliance, the Kenya Association of Manufacturers, the Kenya Climate Change Working Group, and the Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Association also came and gave their views on the amendment Bill. Other stakeholders who were in attendance included the Northern Rangelands Trust, the Nature Conservancy, the Nairobi Climate Network, the Academia Ban Manufacturing Company, the Tumua Innovation Limited, the Environmental Institute of Kenya, Kenbright, among others."
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