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    "content": "We are already noting the catastrophes that are related to climate change, namely, the tsunamis, the La Nina and the E l Niños. If we do not mitigate these extreme temperatures which are coming as a consequence of climate change, then, not only are we going to have loss of life, but we are going to have, as I have indicated before, diseases that are related to those effects. Indeed, carbon dioxide has increased by 35 per cent since the industrial revolution and human activity has compromised ecological integrity. That is why we are witnessing all that we are seeing. Article 3.1 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate provides that:- “The State parties should protect the climate system for the benefit of present and future generations of human kind on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common, but differentiated responsibility and respective capacities. Accordingly, the parties of developed countries should take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, strategies for mitigation must, therefore, take into account, not only ecological dimensions of climate change, but the dimensions of human rights, equity and environmental justice, especially for the vulnerable and indigent. Indeed, when you look at the issue addressed by Article 3.1, when we are talking about our future generations, we are talking about our children. That whatever mitigating impacts and effects that we are thinking of must take into account future generations, who are our children. Because of that, I want to thank and laud the Member for setting up that body which will look into issues of food security and the impact of the new marine species. For instance, the other day, it was reported in the coastal region that there is a new and poisonous fish species that had become extinct, but has now reappeared. Unless we do something, we will be seeing a lot of these. I will not go into the details and content of the Bill, but I will forward to the Committee any detailed suggestions that I want to give. At one point in my life, I was an environmental expert, but I ceded to human rights. So, now and again, I marry the environmental bit with the human rights bit. That is why I want to encourage the Member that in the mitigating strategies, they must take into account human rights and human justice. I congratulate the Member."
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