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    "id": 711015,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/711015/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also wish to support the ratification of this Agreement on climate change. Even as we ratify it, we must also have home- grown solutions because ratification of a protocol is not good enough. We must look at the problems that affect us and seek to resolve them. Indeed, climate change is going to be one of the world’s biggest challenges as there would be competition between wildlife and human beings. There is competition for water, food and other things. As we do this, we must also urge the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to be very aggressive because in every small trading town there is a huge timber yard. The timber yards are now the in-thing and you keep wondering why they allow wanton destruction of forests. One of the things that we must do is to penalise those who destroy our forests by imposing high penalties. We must also do what Wangari Maathai used to do. One of the things that she did in her Greenbelt Movement was that if you wished to cut a tree, you were supposed to prove you had planted three or more trees. Today, if you go to the forest, you will find that people just cut trees without planting more. So, we must look at that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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