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    "id": 774651,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the Adoption of Sessional Paper No.3 of 2017 on the National Policy on Climate Finance. I grew up in an environment where climate change was never a topic of discussion because everything was predictable. The environment was also clean. Lake Victoria was clean. The water draining into Lake Victoria from River Suo and River Nzoia was clean. Over the years I have lived on this earth, I have traversed the breadth and length of this country in my professional practice and, indeed, I have come face to face with the impact of climate change. I never knew it was an issue until I first landed in Nairobi to join Form One. I saw heaps of garbage. I did not believe that these bad things happen in the world. Over the years, we have seen the Nairobi River get polluted and it now looks like a sewer. It donned on me that the issue of climate change in this country is important and it requires address and redress. We cannot underestimate the negative impact of climate change. It is provided in Article 42 of the Constitution that we have a right to a clean environment. If we do not live to the dictates of that particular article, we run the risk of even compromising the attainment of social and economic rights as stated in Article 43 of the Constitution. You cannot talk about good sanitation when you have a bad environment or you are badly affected by climate change. As much as we have been looking upon the Government to deal with the environmental issue, time has come for us, the citizens of this country, the young and the old, to take the issue of climate change seriously. Article 69 of the Constitution, specifically 1(d), calls for public participation. It requires every member of this society to take 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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