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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the ninth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Industry Innovation and Infrastructure is very important because in a growing population and in countries that are seeking social economic development, it is inevitable that we have big infrastructure projects be they dams, roads, railways and many other projects of the same nature. What is not adequate is the measures put in place to ensure that the infrastructure projects do not have negative impacts on the biodiversity and the communities that live there. The one thing that we must consider is that there is a difference between planting trees and growing trees. Planting trees as has been suggested by Sen. Kibiru is fine because a tree needs a minimum of three years to grow. A lot of times when we have planted trees, they do not survive the three years because after planting, we move on to other things without checking or measuring if the tree survived. If we couple every major infrastructure development with tree planting and growing because the projects take a few years to complete, the people working on site can plant, nurture and grow the trees. This Motion on tree planting is workable. The three year period that a tree needs to survive can be achieved if we anchor our tree growing initiatives on our infrastructure development. Madam Temporary Speaker, the biodiversity, the critical habitat and local communities are the most affected by this major infrastructure projects. If the same communities are engaged in the tree planting and growing, it will become a very sustainable way of living as envisioned in ninth SDG which requires that industry goes along with innovation and sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Currently, we have extractive infrastructure development. The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) passed through the Nairobi National Park and part of the natural resource was lost to the infrastructure development. I do not think that we have renewed or replaced the lost fauna that was there before."
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