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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waweru",
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        "legal_name": "Dennis Kariuki Waweru",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with great power, comes great responsibility. We need to invest in making sure that the most able are also most responsible in taking care of our environment. Big companies are depositing raw sewerage effluents into our rivers and depositing high level lead waste into our rivers. Some multinational corporations are depositing very offensive garbage into our environments and as such, it becomes a precarious adventure to live in this city. Those are two areas we need to invest in going forward as we tackle the issue of climate change. I would like to put on record that the effects of climate change as we know them go beyond the obvious issues of a harsh environment, food shortage and the issues that have been raised this afternoon. I would like to offer to this House that to my mind, the greatest war that we face going forward is the war of resources that will be necessitated by the changes in the climate. The great Prof. Wangare Maathai taught us that unfortunately, the issues of climate are taken very subtly because the effects of climate change are very subtle in themselves. However, we are the generation that is living at that point where we had been warned that climate change effects are normally slowly and then sudden. I believe we are at the sudden point. That is why I would like to say that we are the first generation that is able to end poverty and the last generation that can take steps to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Future generations will judge us harshly if we fail to uphold our moral and historical responsibilities. These are not KJ’s words but the words of the former Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki- Moon. With those remarks, I support the adoption of Sessional Paper No.3 on the National Policy on Climate Finance."
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