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    "id": 1283032,
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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": "This is where I want to draw the attention of my colleagues; you will find companies like Microsoft and Unilever having operations in Kenya. This is because of lack of this regulatory framework and the demand that you are making on these companies. In other countries such as Tanzania – that is why I have mentioned the figures they have unlocked in the last one year alone – they are able to put projects that are measurable. In Kenya, for the lack of this legal framework, they know you can easily get by and nobody will ask you any difficult questions. That will be a thing of the past immediately we conclude on this Bill today. That is why I urge on the importance and urgency of concluding on this Bill today. When the world comes to Nairobi City next week and we have more than 30 presidents attending the Africa Climate Summit, they will know that Kenya is under a new regime of law. It is important that I address that point because many people have asked why we were not given additional time and all these things. While it is important to listen to those particular concerns, the importance and significance of the first continental summit on ways and means through which Africa or the rest of the global south will stand to benefit in this space of carbon credits is happening here in Nairobi City. We need to be under the proper regime of law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it will be a great absurdity for the world to be here speaking about carbon credit, yet the host country itself has not ratified or domesticated this law. That is the essence of Clause 3 of the Bill. Clause 4 of the Bill seeks to amend Section 6 of the Act and insert a new paragraph to provide for the guidance and policy discreation on carbon markets to the national and county governments, the public and others take holders. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is an important place for us as the Senate as defenders of devolution. I had mentioned Clause 4 was important because without bringing county governments into this conversation, then it will be an idle venture. It is because we know all these projects take place in our counties. All the mitigative measures of the action we need to take is done by people in the grassroots level. It would be unfair for us to have a Bill that does not bring the nexus of the national and county governments, the public and other stakeholders as is being done under Clause 4. Clause 5 of the Bill amends Section 7 of the Act. It aligns and provides for membership of the council that is being set up for better operations. I will try and move quickly because I am alive to the kind of interest that this Bill will generate. Therefore, I do not intend to take the full one hour. Perhaps, Members will want to speak to Clauses 10, 11 and 12. I will try and rush so that maybe the rest will be said by the seconder, the Chairperson of the Committee. During his time of seconding, he may mention perhaps some of the things that I easily would have forgotten or rushed over in the interest of time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I mentioned that Clauses 10, 11 and 12 of the Bill seek to amend Section 15 and 16 of the Act. This is to empower the Cabinet Secretary to make regulations as the council's mandate is of a higher level of providing overarching policy and the national climate change coordination mechanism. 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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