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    "id": 476871,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "are also problems like going to fetch firewood and water further and further away. These are the actions that are contributing in our own cultural and daily living to issues that translate later into climate change. We must bring it down to the level that we use the vocabulary of the different cultures which we are dealing with so that we can understand it better. I know we may have issues of automobile emissions. These are still not big issues in our country. We are not yet at the scale of, say, New York or other major metropolitan areas. However, what is happening now within our daily lives also contributes to it. With regard to issues relating to enforcement or implementation of proposals, we must not think that climate change actions will stand separate from the other actions; they must be mainstreamed. For instance, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) must ensure that the actions they seek to put in place include actions that affect climate change. Let us mainstream it like we mainstreamed gender. Let us not have a separate study policy. The various agencies must be implementing actions that are consistent with the change in our livelihoods and culture. This will enable us avoid having a deteriorating environment. The proposal about the role of the Council is great. The Council’s role should be more to ensure that there is adherence to policy rather than to enforce specific actions by themselves. If we do that we shall have pillars in enforcement and we shall not succeed. I think we should seek to ensure that it is everybody’s business to ensure that the planet we leave behind – and we will leave it behind very quickly--- I know people are worried about the increase in temperatures by two degrees centigrade by 2050 which is about 36 years away. This is a generation away and it may not appeal to people immediately. We do not even know whether in fact 2050 is realistic or not, but the key thing is that the actions affect us already. In the context of Kenya, let us deal with our people. Let us embed in the law the things that will change and improve the livelihoods because the actions are here with us now. If they buy into that, they will be buying into climate change management and control, but the rest of it is going to be esoteric, that the actual implementation will remain in the annals of science as scientists go round the globe. They are even here with us at UNEP. We must bring it to the households of our people and to do that, I would expect that if we could then we embed it in the law or the regulations that ought to come before this House fairly quickly so that we see how we are domesticating, otherwise very esoteric science that is, as you all know, fairly complex even for educated people. With those few remarks, I support."
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