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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Report and ask Members to ensure that we do not ratify the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The reasons are as follows. This Agreement will cause massive unemployment in our country. Why do I say so? When governments introduce very many regulations in their economy; and, when governments comes up with very many policies which entrepreneurs must adhere to, the net effect is they make investment too costly. This is one of the endeavours of this document. I will give you a very good example. Since we established the entity called the “National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)”, you have to go and pay money when you want to come up with a building. We pay Kshs40,000 which is a lot of money. By the way, that depends on the nature of the building. Secondly, it takes a lot of time. These are ideas of developed countries which developed by breaching the so-called climate. After they are up there, they manoeuvre to tell poor countries to follow suit. At what expense? Ours is a very poor country. Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person is about US$1,800 per year. Here, we are going to negotiate with countries like France and the USA which have about US$50,000 GDP per capita. Surely, that means they are about 50 times richer than us. So, we have contributed zero to climate change. If you look at the percentage of carbon emission, you will find that China contributes almost a half to the best of my knowledge while the USA contributes about another half. Ours is 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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