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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I mean, there must be benefits we get by this House adopting this Policy. One of them is that it is an important part of accelerating the implementation of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 in which a clean and healthy environment is a fundamental right. Articles 42, 69 and 70 of the Constitution of Kenya guarantee our citizens the fundamental rights to a clean and healthy environment. I heard the new Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry vigorously saying that he is going to make sure that Kenyans get a clean and healthy environment. How I wish he picks from where the late Minister Michuki left! He needs to clean Nairobi River, because it the one thing which the Late John Michuki, may his soul rest in peace, is remembered for. The Cabine Secretary, Tobiko, if you want us to remember you, please, clean Nairobi River from the forest all the way to the slums. Let the water that flows in it be that which can be consumed at an instance. Another benefit of this Policy is that it will help advance the Vision 2030 agenda by increasing the country’s adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change while at the same time promoting low carbon sustainable development. It will make sure that we increase our capacity in terms of adaptiveness and our resilience to climate change while at the same time promoting how we can have a low carbon sustainable development. The Policy will help Kenya to mobilise additional domestic and international climate finance resources and increase financial flows in order for the Government, private sector and other players to address issues of climate change and issues of national development. Finally, this Policy will help Kenya’s ability to effectively manage and track adequate and predicable climate change finance. When we go back to the next Climate Change Conference, Parliament will know the amount of resources we have in order to improve our ability as a country to effectively manage, track and have adequate and predictable climate change finance. In a nutshell, that is what the National Policy on Climate Finance is all about. It is a document that has been prepared by our technocrats both in the Ministry of the National Treasury, and the Environment and Climate Change Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Together, they have developed this Policy. It will help us achieve resources and comply with international standards. It will enable Kenya, being one of the 20 countries, which are at risk, participate in climate finance. With those many remarks, I will ask Hon. Cecily Mbarire to second."
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