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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. I want to congratulate Dr. Otichilo who has distinguished himself as the parliamentary expert on this matter. I would also like to thank him for very consistently pushing the agenda of dealing and mitigating the effects of climate change for this country. The issue of climate change has captured the attention of the international community in an unprecedented manner. According to the latest assessment report of the United Nations (UN) Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is unequivocal evidence that the earth’s climate is warming largely due to anthropogenic green house gas emissions. In the absence of effective mitigating strategies, the IPCC predicts that the earth’s temperatures will increase by 2.0 to 4.5 degrees by the end of the century resulting in increased levels of temperatures. It, therefore, calls on us to take very quick action to mitigate the impacts. The predicted temperature increases in the Arctic are even more extreme. It is projected that it will rise from 5 degrees to 7 degrees by 2099. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, we are already seeing the effects, first on our flora and fauna . Some of the effects we are seeing relate to diseases. Indeed, if you see, even in Kenya, we are experiencing some diseases that we never saw before which are appearing as a consequence of the effects of climate change. We are experiencing worsening drought and desertification. We find that areas that traditionally got rain no longer get the rain and vice versa . Indeed, you can see even from today, this is the period that we normally get our short rains. But if you notice, we only got a bit of the rain at the beginning of November and, then suddenly, the rains disappeared. Then from nowhere, there are rains today. Even for purposes of planning, especially for the farmers, it becomes very difficult. I was born on 1st November. In the past, I would tell you with so much certainty that it would definitely rain on 1st November because it always rains on my birthday. I no longer can tell people that because of the effects of climate change."
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