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    "id": 1283150,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1283150/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kavindu Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Kavindu Muthama",
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    "content": "Thank you. This is a very timely amendment to the Climate Change Bill because where we are heading as a global world is not a very good place. Therefore, as I rise to support it, I want to raise some issues from my county where we have many farmers who have planted a lot of coffee, oranges and mangoes. I believe that these trees also produce a lot of carbon. That is why we should fully involve the counties to supervise what their farmers are doing in their farms and make sure that they benefit from the carbon credit. As they benefit from harvesting the coffee, mangoes and oranges, they should also benefit from carbon credit. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many organisations are benefiting from carbon credit marketing in Kenya while Kenyans are not. This is a very timely Bill because it will put up the structures for these people to trade officially and for our locals to benefit. Climate change should be included as one of the key variables in computing the sharable revenue for counties to encourage them to participate effectively in climate change. I would also request, like the rest of us, that the youth be fully involved in planting of the trees. Counties must benefit from this carbon credit market from their forest. They will earn own-source revenue to support our people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support."
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