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    "id": 1443764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "governments. The role of the Senate thus becomes very crucial in terms of oversighting the implementation of climate action. In terms of background, climate change remains a major threat to our nation's economic, social and environmental well-being. The major challenge remains to be how we will overcome the current low levels of climate resilience and the adaptive capacity that continue to threaten the ability of our local communities and key sectors of the economy to withstand the climate shocks that we find ourselves in. The Ministry is the Government lead on all issues of climate change and has, through the Climate Change Act of 2016, established the requisite governance structures to guide climate change action in the country. I will be expounding on this a little later. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kenya is a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement. We have been very keen to adhere to this important multilateral process by tapping into the available opportunities for us to be able to influence the global climate change discourse through active engagement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Kenya Kwanza Administration has been very intentional in profiling the country's climate action and it is because the vagaries of the climate change debacle are borderless. What Kenya does or does not do affects the global community and vice versa. That is the reason we have been very deliberate in our climate diplomacy. As a result, Kenya is currently the chair of the African Group of Negotiators, which gives the country an opportunity to shape the discussions on climate change in the continent. Thereafter, influence the same discourse at the global level through the conferences of parties that happen every year. His Excellency the President is also the coordinator of the Committee of African Heads of States and Governments on climate change. After the hosting of the Inaugural Africa Climate Summit last year in September, Kenya is currently the host of the Africa Climate Change Secretariat. This is intended to enhance our resource mobilization capacities linking the country with technologies across the globe and climate financing challenges that we face that require global networking. The specific question by the Senator of Kisumu County is focused on the initiatives we have put in place both at national and county levels, taking into account the climate change needs of every county. Notwithstanding the fact that the core mandate of the Ministry is to provide policy and regulatory environment for adequate implementation of climate action in the country, the Ministry has been engaged vigorously in resource mobilization to address the climate change issues. I will focus on an example of a programme called the Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLOCA), which is a USD295 million programme that is focused on building climate change resilience at the local level. The programme is targeting 45 counties with exclusion of Nairobi and Mombasa and I will explain why. This programme is funded by the World Bank, the governments of Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Another programme is the Strengthening Forest Management for Improved Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Resilience in the South Rangelands of Kenya, a project funded by the Global Environment Fund and a list of others. I am just 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
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