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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": "“Mandated to promote, monitor, protect, conserve and manage the environment and mineral resources through sustainable exploitation of resources for socio-economic development, aimed at eradication of poverty, improving living conditions and ensuring that a clean environment is sustained, now and in the future”. Towards this end, the Ministry hopes to ensure that:- 1. Water catchment areas as well as different eco-systems are adequately protected. 2. Environmental issues are well addressed, co-ordinated and funded 3. Issues of biodiversity, land degradation, desertification and climate change effects are thoroughly addressed. 4. The Ministry staff gets necessary skills to respond to emerging environmental challenges and give the required awareness to the public and other stakeholders. 5. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) formulates the necessary environmental regulations and enforces them with stakeholders. 6. The Department of Mines and Geology provides the requisite information to enable investment in the mining sector. 7. The Kenya Meteorological Department provides accurate and timely weather and climate information and services for the safety of life, protection of property and the conservation of natural environment for the sustainable development of the country. 8. Lastly, Kenya links with other international efforts in addressing global environmental concerns in environmental governance. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I proceed to outline how my Ministry will implement the measures outlined above, allow me to highlight briefly on matters touching on climate change which, needless to say, is the most complex and greatest challenge facing mankind today, including Kenya. Kenya participated last December in the 15th Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark. As you are aware, not much was achieved. The Copenhagen Accord did not attract the much anticipated global response."
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