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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "quite a disappointment that out of that Conference of Parties, the developed countries were not able to achieve much. I believe that the commitments that were made did not exceed USD300 billion out of more than USD1 trillion that was required. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is further troubling that the United States of America (USA) has given notice of withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under which parties organize themselves under the Conference of Parties. The rest of the world cannot afford to go to sleep simply because the United States of America has decided to be irresponsible. You do not stop taking care of your garden. You do not stop fumigating your house simply because your neighbour is not fumigating theirs. That seems to be the very irrational decision that the United States has made, because they argue that they should not be penalized for success but that success has been at great expense for the rest of the countries. Therefore, I believe that if democracy was to hold sway and that in the next three or four years, the residents of the USA will see the folly of the decisions they are making today, they will come back to the UNFCCC. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I put it on record that within the Climate Change Caucus, we have appreciated that we must go beyond the talk and do some action. In this session, we will be initiating a program known as Parliamentarians for Climate Change. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a program that has been financed by the Green Climate Fund through the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and it is being implemented by Climate Parliament, which is a global organization that brings together parliamentarians who are passionate about climate change. The theme of this engagement is to encourage the establishment of green investment zones in each country. Think about a green investment zone the way we look at the EPZs, industrial zones, and county aggregation parks. A green investment zone would be an area that is custom-made with proper laws, proper regulations and proper infrastructure for people to come and put in investments in renewable energy. Now, you can imagine that today, if you wanted to put up a solar firm, and I have this experience where we had a USA investor who wanted to put up a 40-megawatt solar firm on the hills of Nyakwere. I think Sen. Beatrice Ogola was a County Executive Committee Member (CECM) in Homa Bay County at that time. I believe she was involved in ensuring that the land was acquired in bringing in the investor. The investors were quite ready to put millions of U.S.A Dollars into this project, to put in 40 megawatts. However, then the problem came up in OFTEC because the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) and the rest of the entities, statutory bodies involved in the uptake and transmission of electricity, had a dim view of solar. They said solar is intermittent power and not stable, and therefore, they were not prioritising it into the national grid. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, advances in solar energy and technology have outstripped advances in any other sector. We see courtesy of electric vehicles, the"
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