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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I beg to move that the Climate Change (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bills No.42 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important gathering of the Senate today, this morning. We are meeting here as a House to consider the Climate Change (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.42 of 2023); a Bill that was published under the gazette Supplement No.127 of 2023, considered by the National Assembly, and passed on the 23rd August 2023. Thereafter, it was referred to us for consideration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you are aware that the coming few days, the whole conversation across the Continent of Africa will be about climate and climate change. The conversation is being altered in favour of no particular player. On many occasions, we have been reminded across the globe as the world continues to meet and gather in the Conference of Parties (CoP) meetings that the climate conversation is not about the global south or north, but rather how we convert and mitigate the negative effects of climate change. This is the only way we can have a better climate for all of us on the globe. It has been ably demonstrated that there are no winners and losers in this climate conversation. Many thought the ravaging effects of climate change would perhaps be felt more in the global south than in the north. However, while we continue the battle against things like drought and other factors, the events of the last few years have seen other more devastating effects in the global north as well. This has led to the realization by every policymaker and every key decision maker on the globe that this is not an idle conversation. This is not something that you can afford to play the usual games of the world where people sit pretty. Those in the global north consider it to be a problem of the south and those in the south imagine it to be a problem far too much disposed of the effects here on the south and, therefore, do not give due consideration to it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill makes an amendment to a Bill that we passed in this House in the 2016; the Climate Change Act of 2016. The world was imagining that this was a passing challenge. Many countries signed on to the Paris Agreement of 2015. At the national level, each country tied on their own to either domesticate laws or find measures of mitigating this problem and imagine that this is something that you will quickly address and move on to the next challenge. Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately, the following years have taught the world a difficult lesson. People have realized that this is perhaps the greatest threat that continues to affect this world. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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