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    "id": 1516273,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this the Environment Laws (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.23 of 2024) being sponsored by a brother and our friend the Senator from Garissa. I want to make a few comments on the whole issue around environmental conservation and climate change in relation to this Bill. To begin with, a way must be found now than ever before to move from this archaic way of doing things in terms of tree-planting, where we set aside a day and say it is a tree-planting day. We go and buy trees from nurseries, distribute them to people and they plant them and go. You can be very sure that if one tree out of 20 that are planted survives, it is a miracle. We need to begin to take tree-planting exercise a little bit serious. Leaders should be hands-on in dealing with this matter of climate change and environmental conservation. I want to thank Sen. Abdul Haji for proposing this Bill. As the Senate Majority Leader has said, I wish some space will be found, either expressly or implicitly in this Bill, to ensure that we as leaders take the front row in pushing forward the agenda of environmental conservation. I have this in mind. The place to begin in ensuring that the ideals of this Executive succeed in planting 15 billion trees by 2030 would be to begin with our own homes. Every Senator in this Senate has a place that they call home. If every Senator establishes a forest of their own definition at their own home, whether it is 20, 30, 50 or 100 trees and nurture them to maturity, we will begin to speak to other people about forest cover and conserving our environment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the next job and this is important, would be to move to our immediate environment in the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya. I challenge the promoter of this Bill to work closely with the administration of Parliament and make sure that in this Senate, each Senator gets a tree seedling and grows them within this environment, the compound of Parliament; making sure that in the remaining two and a half years, each Senator nurtures their own seedling to maturity. If we begin this way, then we will be giving effect to serious environmental conservation. This is because, conserving our environment and increasing our forest cover will not happen in boardrooms. It will not happen on the Floor of this Senate. It 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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