HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 1480129,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1480129/?format=api",
"text_counter": 302,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
"speaker": {
"id": 15,
"legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
"slug": "aden-duale"
},
"content": "The next group is the National Climate Change Council (NCCC). This is chaired by the President and 1, as the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, as the Secretary. We also have the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, people from the academia, civil society, marginalised communities and youth representative. You passed it in the Climate Change (Amendment) Act two months ago in this House. I am at the stage of establishing that Council. So, what does this Council do as an actor? The Council's mandate is to provide legislative and policy direction. Whatever comes to the House, whether it is a policy or legislative, it emanates from them. They supervise, oversee, and guide on climate change across all levels of government, including climate finance mechanism that I have just talked about. It is called the Climate Change Fund. The third actor is the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Finance, which was established in 2015 to provide leadership. Their function is to provide leadership on the climate finance activities in Kenya, including the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Finance is composed of senior technical officers handling climate change, climate finance matters from various ministries, departments, agencies, and the Council of Governors. The fourth actor is my Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Forestry. What do we do? We co-ordinate climate change actions in the country, and we are the focal point for this United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We chair this Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Finance, and we operationalise the entity for the global environmental facility, which supports a number of our programmes. The fifth actor is NEMA. What does NEMA do? As I said earlier, it is the designated national authority for carbon markets in Kenya. There is a register. They assess when there is a carbon market project in a constituency. They analyse and look at the law. I thank this House because the regulations for carbon markets were passed last week. For the first time, if, for example, there is a carbon offset project in Dr Mutunga’s or the Deputy Speaker's constituency, the community, by law, will get 40 per cent of the proceeds. The project will not continue until a community development agreement is signed. Before, nobody was paying. Many companies were getting billions from our soil carbon, but they were not paying anything. So NEMA is now mandated as a focal point. They co-chair and the inter-ministerial are the implementing entity for the adaptation fund and the direct access entity. Then we have the line ministries and State departments. The line ministries mainstream climate action in planning and budgeting. We also have county governments. The establishment of the County Climate Change Funds. Many funds go into our counties. The Senate has an obligation to audit the funds in our counties in the mainstreaming of climate action in the county's planning and budgeting process. The two final actors are development partners. What do the development partners do? They have the provision of climate finance and technical assistance. They include the multilateral, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the bilateral actors, the European Union, DANIDA, USAID, CEDA, AFD, and JICA. Lastly, we have the private sector. What is their role as actors in climate financing? They invest in low carbon climate resilience technologies and action. Kenya Commercial Bank, for example, is accredited by the Global Climate Fund. Equity Bank, and Cooperative Bank, have been nominated for accreditation. Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), and Kenya Association of Manufacturers are members of the inter-ministerial technical committee. What are the benefits of financing received? Hon. Temporary Speaker, Kenya mobilises an average of Ksh300 billion every year on climate finance and climate-related investments from both the public and private sector. Some of the notable climate funding projects in Kenya include the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resilient sustainability facility of USD544 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."
}