Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 721 to 730 of 1784.

• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of climate change has become so real. When climate change conversations started in the 1980s, it seemed a far off conversation on the need to take care of our environment. One of the biggest agenda was about taking care of our environment in terms of planting trees and taking care of the natural ecosystems. I remember when prominent people like Mr. Al Gore started off by talking about climate change, we thought of it as being something that is very far off. Right now we are experiencing very high temperatures in this country. We might ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Clearly, we are going through a season where we need to think about trees. Trees contribute, to a large extent, even beginning with the basic process where human beings breathe out carbon dioxide, which is absorbed by trees then emitted again as oxygen. Therefore, even in terms of ensuring that we have a clean and hygienic environment, trees play a very important role. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Naturally, Madam Temporary Speaker, we are an agricultural society, with agriculture taking up about 80 percent. We have also concentrated on food crops to the detriment of trees in certain areas. There are areas, for example, at the coast, where you find coconut trees and other trees growing, and harvest those trees takes a long time. Therefore, those trees have a double purpose; of just existing as trees, but also for economic output. However, in certain places, there is so much concentration of food crops, such that we have not made any effort, yet it is not difficult. It starts ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Tsavo Heritage Foundation located in Taita Taveta has started this initiative. During the month of December, they encourage people to go for a marathon within the county. When the marathon is ongoing, people are able to see and appreciate the environment, consider the need for planting trees and, at the end of the marathon, the last event is tree-planting. Indeed, through collaboration with various organizations and schools, initiatives are being carried out to plant trees within the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: school. This can be a competition among schools so that one school plants trees in a particular area, and then others do the same and make comparisons. We can have people nurture trees. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I have always talked about the case of Rwanda, where they take care of their gorilla school through the Quintine Zilla Ceremony. This can also happen with trees, so that by the time you have a specific tree, you get interested in it. If you do that, nobody would even want to cut a tree. With the ravages of weather that we have seen, not even mentioning the economic output of those particular trees, it is very important that where a tree is cut for use, another tree or two are planted. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I look at this whole issue as a feature of culture or communities, somewhere along the line, losing this aspect of nurturing trees. I remember many people in the 1960s planting trees and nurturing them, and this seems to be gone. Unfortunately, we now have to go the legislative way; and an Act is already in place. I would urge Sen. Kassanga that as we proceed with dealing with this Motion, if there is capacity somewhere to visit certain County Executive Committee (CEC) members and find out what they are doing, probably within a context of a ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: The sort of tax levies that Sen. Kassanga is talking about in this Motion and fiscal incentives that can be given are very high. We know what incentives are in place for carbon dioxide, and the effort that has been there. Some people have made a lot of money from that. When we actually get to a point where we create incentives – I wanted to say commercialize – but I think that has a different implication, so that it is used to plant trees. This is the way to go and the direction to be taken, and the incentives ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this Motion is coming from the dimension that, yes, we have the Act, but what about the implementation, what we call the operationalization? What is happening with this very specific community forest associations that need to be put in place to expedite the communities’ participation in forest resources and management? There seems to be a de-linking in terms of operationalization and personnel, and this is probably the right place to jump-start this sort of initiative. How do we jump-start it if already an Act is in place and maybe it is not being effected very well? The ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: What do we do? I think that the centre-point and this is the proposal at Clause 4, that the CEC Members and the county assemblies move on to this. Where necessary, they can enact legislation on forestry functions for county governments to add more value to this. view