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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am a Christian and a believer. However, there is an intersection between faith and science and the church acknowledges that. The Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Islamic faith and all other faiths believe in that intersection between science and faith. So, I will not accept a situation where the leadership wants to tell us that they are the ones responsible for the rains through their prayer. Rain is an act of God. It is through the benevolence of God that we get rain and not because of human action. As I conclude, I know there are so many things that were captured here. In the morning, I listened to my colleague, Sen. Mungatana, talk about the need for a model climate change law because part of the issues that were discussed at this high-level forum was urgent action to combat climate change and its impact. I am glad to report that through the African Parliamentarian Network on Climate Change where I sit in the Bureau, we have come up with a model climate change law, which we have circulated to all the parliaments across Africa. Kenya was a leader. Kenya came up with the first Climate Change Act in 2016, but from 2016 to date, a lot of things have changed. Things like carbon trading and carbon markets have become mainstream. The Paris Agreement has received further interpretation and further enhancements. We have new concepts, like the new collective quantified goal on climate financing. We have new concerns, like reforming the climate financing architecture. I will soon be presenting to the House and to the relevant committee the proposed climate change law so that we can compare it with Kenya's climate change law and see on the areas to enhance. One of the things that we have proposed in the model climate change law is climate budget tagging. In Uganda, when Parliament processes the budget, they have to produce at least two certificates. One certificate is that the budget is gender responsive and the second certificate is that the budget is climate responsive. I would be happy if Kenya adopted that practice that every budget must be looked at to ensure that issues of climate and gender are mainstreamed alongside the other considerations that are in the Constitution. The first Africa Climate Summit was organized and hosted in Kenya. The next one will probably be hosted in Addis Ababa, the Africa Union Headquarters. We need to go there with clarity on what we want to achieve. The biggest elephant in the room is that the people who have made riches out of activities that have polluted and aggravated the climate crisis are unwilling to part with money; a little share of the black proceeds that they have gotten, so that other countries can adapt and other countries can mitigate. That is why when we went to Baku in 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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