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    "id": 1283031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1283031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Provisions of Clause 3 of the Bill ensure that the national Government and the respective county government where this project is situated, jointly oversee and monitor negotiations for the community development agreement with the project proponents and the stakeholders. This is where it gets interesting because of this contribution or collaboration between the national Government and our various respective county governments. We have been told from when we were young that people either respond to the stick or the carrot. That either they are forced to do something or you motivate them. Therefore, the question that people have been asking is what is my motivation? Why should I maintain a better environment? What reward do we get as a community? Thanks to this NDC, the regulatory framework that we are passing, it shall be possible for communities that maintain or are leading actually in this carbon credit market to ensure that they enjoy the biggest benefit. Sen. Mwaruma, it will interest you to know that because of the presence of Tsavo East and Tsavo West, Taita-Taveta, the people that you represent in this Senate, stand to benefit the most because of the benefits of that particular clause that I have referred to. The host communities will be the leading beneficiaries of these particular projects. For the good work that you have done in maintaining Tsavo East and Tsavo West, commensurate projects that are being attracted and directed to that particular region will be good motivation for your people, to not only maintain Tsavo, but even grow our trees and maintain a better environment so that they participate greatly in this carbon market. Specifically, Clause 2 of this Bill seeks to amend Section 2 of the Act where you provide definition of the new terms that are being introduced. Like I had mentioned earlier, this is an ongoing conversation on the globe that many people, thanks from the time that the world met in Paris up to now--- Clause 2 of the Bill provides for the additional terms that have come which when we did the law back here in 2016, we had not thought significantly about it. This clause is about definition of the new clauses. Clause 3 of the Bill seeks to amend Section 3 of the Act and provides for one of the objects of the Act, which is what I have just referred to and spent a lot of time trying to explain; which is a legal framework on the international market mechanisms on carbon markets. In that I have explained that while the rest of the countries that are competing with us have set in place this regulatory framework to be able to monitor and know what are the carbon trade projects that are going on in their country, we did not have this legal framework. That is the proposal that we are having here so that monetary constraints and revenue generation that continues to face us as a country when you try to participate and meet our own quota in the NDC shall be a thing of the past. We shall be able to know this is the amount that a specific company has invested. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are many global companies that operate out of Kenya. In fact, you will struggle to find any serious leading, corporate entity globally, that does not have operations in Kenya. We all know that it is because this is a large economy. I know we have had challenges previously and quite a number of them left, but many are beginning to troupe back. 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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