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    "content": "3. A carbon offset initiative is another project to promote private indigenous forests. This country, through my Ministry, would focus on carbon offset initiative as a flagship project. We must also appreciate that forests play a major role in regulating temperature and absorption of excess carbon in the atmosphere. We intend to achieve this through registration of private indigenous and commercial forest farms, so that payments are negotiated for maintenance and non-logging through reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation projects. 4. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, “RED” as it is abbreviated, is a process of climate change mitigation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the forest sector by reducing the rate of deforestation and forest degradation. In this year’s Budget Speech, it was indicated that renewable energy such as biomass and solid waste will be developed to reduce over-reliance on hydro-power. Forests form the primary source of biomass and most solid waste that could be utilized to generate energy. The same case applies to fish farming, which more often than not, relies on natural water in dams and ponds. There has been significant reduction of flows in forest waterways which are sources of livelihood for many communities. We have to put measures in place to mitigate this phenomenon. This means that we have to recover the lost ground by planting more trees not just few hundreds of acres, but thousands of hectares. We have to take seriously, the warnings by scientists of the dangers posed by global warming and continued climate change that could be mitigated through planting of trees. 5. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our wildlife is an important national and international heritage. Kenya boasts to be a custodian of this wild heritage. Wildlife is currently under great pressure arising from human/wildlife conflicts, due to increased human activities in traditional wildlife territories. We, therefore, need to recover wildlife corridors and migratory routes that have been lost through land adjudication and illegal or irregular settlement. This will enhance biodiversity, hence increasing earnings from natural resources, tourism industry and reducing poverty in our country. Our wildlife serves multiple roles. We, therefore, need to maintain healthy wildlife population to sustain our tourism industry. The encroachment of wildlife corridors, poaching and human/wildlife or livestock/wildlife conflicts should be seriously addressed. In a nutshell, Kenya is endowed with some of the world’s richest natural resources and ecosystems. The country has a complex environment, providing habitats to thousands of unique flora and fauna that we must conserve. These are our heritage and pride."
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