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    "id": 1382664,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruku GK",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Climate change is a serious threat to the sustainability of our planet. We derive very many natural resources which are key to development and progress of the human race from our environment. This has been threatened seriously by climate change. Any effort towards ensuring that we manage our natural resources in the most appropriate way is much welcome. The only way to do that is through technology. It is extremely useful in ensuring that the projects which are implemented to adapt or mitigate climate change are managed well. There are several companies which work extremely hard towards carbon neutrality and to ensure that natural resources are turned into assets which are managed properly. This can only be done, if we have technology which can give us spatial intelligence and big data, and remote sensing data to ensure that it is useful for companies or project developers out there working towards carbon neutrality. Our country has committed to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) towards achieving climate neutrality. For this to happen, it is important that we employ satellite-based technology to collect data, as proposed by Hon. Abdul Haro. Those who have been in the business of climate change and finance realise how difficult it is to use manual systems of calculating carbon stock which is turned into carbon credits. Some of these projects which are turned into carbon credits are registered by different registries. Some of them have old methodologies of calculating carbon stock. With the employment of a satellite, it will be very easy to apply geospatial technology and calculate the carbon stock. The carbon stock can be easily be translated into carbon credit. The country can benefit from climate finance in the implementation of some of these projects. There are companies from China and other European nations that may want to sell some of these services to us in the country. If we have such a service from other nations, we will not pay huge prices for it. This Motion is important because it seeks to ensure that we do not use the old methods of managing natural resource assets. We should use new technology to manage our natural resource assets. By so doing, we will cut down costs and the time incurred in implementing some of these projects. We will also have accurate data that can enable us to make the right decisions in calculating the impact of climate change on our land. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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