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"content": " Unfortunately, I look forward to a day when the Somali language, being the language of many millions of Kenyans, will be an official language and then I will do better. I want to correct two issues that the Cabinet Secretary pronounced himself on. One, I appreciate his generosity that he wants to gazette Bute Malawa Forest. It was gazetted four years ago. I requested him to operationalise the 19,000 hectares of land generously given to the Kenya Forest Service. So, it is already gazetted. I wrote to you for its operationalisation, Cabinet Secretary. He also gave another statement. He made remarks in regard to one scientist and environmentalist. I am also an environmentalist. So, you should not think that there is only one environmentalist in the House. I will now go straight to the climate financing issue. There is a paradox globally that climate financing purpose will not stop climatic abuse, but rather the rich nations want to abuse the climate, so that they become richer and the poor ones continue suffering. All they are trying to do, under the concept of climate change, is to cut out a balance between adaptation and mitigation. That is all they are doing about climate change to strike a balance. Those who are endowed can give the wealth they have sinfully acquired, to use the right word, by abusing the environment to the vulnerable ones or the poor Third World States. That is what climate change in a layman way means. In so doing, the structure is as complex as climate change itself. It is hard to understand this issue of carbon credit. It is driven by the same selfish and rich abusers. For us to come to the bottom of climate change financing, we know that the rangelands are the biggest sequester of carbon. It is a scientific concept. Where are the rangelands? Where you and I come from, Hon. Temporary Speaker, in northern Kenya, we call it Arid and Semi- Arid Lands (ASALs). This is the biggest sequester of carbon that is a nuisance to the ozone and climate change. What structures and mechanisms are there? The most affected and vulnerable to climate change are unfortunately the pastoralists. Their land is the biggest sequester of carbon, but also vulnerable in equal measure. How far is carbon financing established to make sure that those who are most affected and the sequester of this bad element are at the core of it? This is something I wish to hear from the Cabinet Secretary. For us to structure climate financing, there is big data and knowledge gap. If you have them, it goes without saying that you cannot come up with adaptation mechanisms appropriate to the risks. Consequently, what will arise? We will have a fragmented financing architecture too. Our climate financing will be fragmented. The architecture will not be smooth and well- orientated. What are we doing about data? How authentic is our climate change data? How knowledgeable are our pastoralists and those who are most affected? That is my first supplementary Question, Hon. Temporary Speaker, and will you allow me a bit of latitude to go into the first because you stopped us?"
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