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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": "I do not know if he went to plant it or if somebody planted it for him. I encourage him that each time he drives to Busia County via Eldoret, he should stop by the Arboretum where we planted those trees and check on them. That is the art you are being taught. It is not just about planting trees, but also growing them. Even the schools that we go to and you are chief guest, appoint somebody and ensure that the tree will grow because we are in a race for 15 billion trees to grow our forest cover to 30 per cent. That is one of the surest ways by which we can make sure that we mitigate the effects of climate change and live in a decent environment; have food security and even overall improve the quality of life of where we live be it here in Nairobi or back in our rural homes. This Bill seeks to amend the Climate Change Act, a Bill that we passed here in the year 2016, and provide for national legislation intended to enhance response to climate change. It will also provide the mechanisms and measures to achieve low carbon climate resilience development. However, as I had laid the background, in 2016 when we were considering the Bill, the world was just coming out of Paris. We were just all happy and thinking that if we went and passed a quick law, this would be the usual challenges that we face in our world. We thought some how things would get organized and we be out of this challenge. However, I have said that the last seven or eight years have taught us a very difficult lesson. All of us inhabitants of the world have realized that if we do not take this conversation seriously then we may not even have a planet to live on in the next few years and the effects are visible. People can see appreciate and know what is happening across the world and nationally. Mr. Speaker, one of the challenges, if you read through the statutes of the Paris Agreement, particularly statute No.25, after all the haggling, push and shove, that comes with the global conversations, unfortunately, the world was not able to agree. This is because the world wanted a mechanism for measuring the mitigation measures that each country was going to put in place in form of policies in their own countries. Unfortunately, because in this climate conversation, people still imagine that there are ways in which you can limit the development of other nations or there is a way in which you set certain policies. Everybody appreciates and no one does not know that the leading polluters, unfortunately, wield the greatest powers on this globe. It was not possible to set a global agency that will be able to monitor the ravaging effects of climate change and policies that were being put in each and every country. They came up with something in the Paris Agreement that is called the National Determined Contributions (NDC) that is goals that you set for yourself as a country and ensure that you measure yourself. Kenya now sets for itself a goal and say we want to do 30 per cent less, for example, just to mention. Our own target as a country is to have a reduction of 32 per cent by the year 2030. It takes a lot of money. In fact, I know that our goal as a country is going to set us off US$62 billion. Knowing where we are as a nation economically, I do not think we have that kind of money. That is why we have this Bill that is before us today. We want to try and find ways through which we can channel the contributions of the leading polluters to secure 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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