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"content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the adoption of this Sessional Paper on the National Policy on Climate Change Finance. We have been here before to adopt this Sessional Paper. It is not actionable until we put our money where our mouth is. It is not actionable until we put resources in it. I do not think there is anyone in this House who has not seen the effects of climate change. Looking back at when we were growing up and comparing it to the current times, as other Members have said, it is totally different from what we saw in the earlier years. I just finished my NG-CDF public participation forums yesterday in Gilgil Constituency and one constant problem that we have is water. I want to thank the Ministry of Education for extending the deadline for the acquisition of birth certificates, which one may think is a small issue, but people would ask us to finish our meetings fast because they wanted to go and look for water. It is that serious. You cannot even have a meeting running until afternoon because mothers want to go and fetch water. Children miss school to go and fetch water. One school in my constituency was last week blown up totally by the wind, something that is avoidable. So, in terms of the effects of climate change, I do not think we need to overemphasise. In terms of the infrastructure and policy guideline, you cannot speak of… In the caucus policy for SDGs, where you and I sit, in terms of SDG No.6, you cannot talk of decent work when people cannot access basic things like drinking water. You cannot talk of eradicating poverty when you have not dealt with issues of climate change. You cannot talk of clean water and sanitation if you have not dealt with the environment. More specifically, if you look at the SDGs 13, 14 and 15 on climate action, life below water and life on land, those are issues that are taken very seriously not only nationally, but internationally. Having been lucky to attend the Conference of Parties (COP20 and COP21) on climate change in Peru and Paris when I was a Senator, I can say that Third World countries are not the biggest contributors to gas emission. So even as we look for resources as a country, both inside and outside, we hope that the major contributors, which are the bigger economies, are able to contribute so that they also account, pro rata, to the issue of low carbon resilience. I am looking forward to a sessional paper that will catalyse the transformation agenda. When you look at the big four that are being advanced by the Jubilee Government, which I support very strongly, the four pillars are affordable housing, food security, manufacturing and affordable healthcare for all. You cannot divorce that from the issue of climate change. Therefore, we will be looking forward to get resources. We also need to streamline policy so that every Ministry takes the issue of dealing with climate change very seriously and interrogate what they need to do. This cuts across all the ministries so that every issue that we are dealing with, be it education, health, extractive mining or mining and petroleum, deals with issues of climate change. Let them take into consideration what we are supposed to do as a country to deal with this catastrophe that we are looking at. As a country, we have come a long way in terms of commitment since the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol 2005. We have grown, but this will mark the beginning of what is actionable. We also hope that the Ministry of Environment and Forestry will do a lot of research in terms of technological innovation and build the capacity of every institution. In fact, we must 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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