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    "id": 99609,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. I wish to confirm that the United Nations has asked developed countries to make concerted efforts to address issues of climate change. The United Nations, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, did have a meeting in Copenhagen last year. I want to confirm that the meeting did not end well, in that the agenda for the meeting was never concluded at the technical level. Therefore, there was no report to be considered by the conference of parties No.15, neither was there a report that had been finalized for consideration by heads of Government who went to Copenhagen. The Question also demands that we explain as to whether Kenya is taking any action. My Ministry, on behalf of the Government, has developed a strategy on climate change, which has been published and distributed to all Members of Parliament. I would request them to read it before they frame their Questions on environment. This issue of policies takes two dimensions. There is the international forum to create policy like this Copenhagen meeting. There are also decisions at the government level. We, as a country, have developed our own and we will take mitigations; also, we will apply clean development because we do think that adaptation is a more compromising and defeatist approach to the problems. In that report we have shown ten sectors of the economy of Kenya which require very drastic changes in order to reverse the process of floods, droughts and lack of water, even for hydro-electric. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, we have a policy. We are working with the United Nations. I think this House ought to know that internationally, and following the Copenhagen meeting, we have almost come to a standstill at the technical level, in that the Kyoto Protocol which forms the one arm of the framework convention, and the Berlin Agreement, where issues of the way forward about finances would be discussed, are now being disowned by the developed world. It requires that, politically, the world meets again to give political direction, because the technicians are likely to carry forward the disagreements that arose in Copenhagen to the next meeting, which is to be held in Mexico in December."
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