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    "id": 1443765,
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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": "highlighting that in response to the Senator's question, we have been involved in fundraising efforts and we have a list of projects that have come through. Any fundraising that we do lands in counties to address the climate change challenges. The Ministry, through the Development Partner Group (DPG) under the office of the Deputy President, has been championing the alignment of all development partner projects and programmes to the Government manifesto. It has also ensured focus on tangible projects on the ground for us to realize maximum impact. Regarding climate change initiatives that we have put in place, we have a robust legislative and institutional architecture to address climate change and its impacts at both levels of Government. At the national level, some of the climate change policies and laws are listed in my presentation ranging from the Constitution, the Climate Change Response Strategy of 2010 and the National Climate Change Action Plan, which is very important. The National Climate Change Action Plan had one running between 2023 and 2027, 2018 to 2022. We recently came up with the 2023 to 2027 Strategy. This is per the Climate Change Act. It is an iterative planning tool for mainstreaming climate actions across all sectors of the economy at both levels of Government. It is also an implementing tool for the nationally determined contributions which are our national commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce emissions and enhance resilience building. We also have the National Adaptation Plan that runs from 2015 to 2030 and the Climate Change Act, which I have spoken to. To delve a bit into the Climate Change Act, which is the parent Act on climate matters in the country, it provides for and supports mainstreaming of climate change actions into development, planning, decision-making and implementation. It also sets out the principles for climate change planning and implementation. I wish to highlight some recent amendments that we made last year to the Climate Change Act. This was intended to provide for regulation of carbon markets and policy direction prescribing carbon reduction to reduce emissions as per our international and local obligations. Kenya has the largest carbon market portfolio in East Africa, but the truth of the matter is that it has very minimal tangible impact to the citizens of Kenya. The import of the amendments to the Climate Change Act was intended to ensure high integrity carbon markets and a very clear mechanism of benefit sharing between the communities, project proponents and both national and county governments. In terms of the progress around the carbon markets space, the week before 18th June, we moved to designate the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) as the designated national authority charged with the responsibility of authorizing and approving participation in the carbon projects under the Paris Agreement. The reason I delve on this is that proper implementation of the carbon markets framework in this country has far-reaching impacts on the improvement of the livelihoods of the communities and in ensuring we have sufficient coping mechanisms against climate action. 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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