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"content": "I have gone through the policy framework and I think it is short in addressing certain things. One of them is housing and how it is going to mitigate climate change against housing. Today if you go to Mariakani, a neighbouring constituency in Kilifi, you realise that houses have been corroded because of the emissions that are coming from the factories in that area. Families are having more kids sick because of the emissions that are coming from there. How has this policy addressed issues of housing and emissions that are coming out of big factories? If you go to Kaloleni where there is a mining for limestone and cement, families there have suffered greatly because of things that come from the earth. It is important, yes; we want mining to continue; we want cement to be produced in this country but it has affected families. Do we stop the production? What are the mitigating features that the ministry or this framework is proposing to ensure that it does not affect such? This policy has addressed the issue of tourism. Yes, climate change has come, temperatures have gone up, oceans are melting, glaciers are melting, and all that. Therefore, we are saying that in the parks it is not easy to find animals the way we used to find them. Therefore, tourists pay more money looking for animals in the park. Does this mean therefore, as we adopt this policy, there will be rises in taxes? The climate change policy proposes certain taxes to curb certain things. So is the ministry or this framework robust enough to really cover the common"
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