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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the delegation proposes several recommendations based on the lessons learnt from the Conference. I will not go into what happened. There were several speakers; the CS, Secretary-General of the UN and the President of Poland and several other heads of states and government from all over the world gave their speeches. The recommendations were as follows – (1) The Cabinet Secretary responsible for Environment to develop regulations under the Climate Change Act (NO. 11 of 2016) to provide for preparation of a regular reporting platform required to coordinate the implementation framework of the Paris Agreement – This include biennial transparency reports, national greenhouse gas inventory reports, among others; (2) The Cabinet Secretary responsible for Environment to initiate a process to update Kenya’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and prepare a long term mid- century low emissions development strategy which is required by 2020; (3) The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury being the national designated authority of the Green Climate Fund to enhance awareness and capacity building for the stakeholders to effectively benefit from the climate financing programme pledged at the COP 24 and enforce policies to safeguard finances in climate change and make climate change funds more accessible to all; (4) The Cabinet Secretary responsible for Environment to conduct sensitization, awareness and capacity building programmes aimed at enhancing the capacities of the local technical negotiators so as strengthen Kenya’s participation at the subsequent Conference of the Parties (COP) Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Kenya statement highlighted hereunder was read to the Conference by Hon. Keriako Tobiko, CBS, SC., Cabinet Secretary - Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Kenya and reiterated the country’s commitment to support the international and regional efforts towards and more particularly to the full implementation of UNCAC requirements. It included- (1) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees centigrade underscores the undeniable fact that climate change is real and that urgent and drastic actions are needed in order to avert a global climate change-induced disaster; (2) That the Conference provided the opportunity to adopt an inclusive and comprehensive programme of work to operationalize the Paris Agreement and maintain the principles and spirit of the Convention and the Agreement, including the principle of intra-and-inter-generational equity and common and many other issues."
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