13 Feb 2025 in Senate:
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13 Feb 2025 in Senate:
I further support their proposal that there would be tax and fiscal incentives to boost investments in forest land use and utilization. If someone does good for the environment, let them get some benefit and let them get something in return for doing good. This would be the best justification for fiscal incentives because we are making investments that are going to last beyond generations. Many a times when we are talking about our finance bills and our fiscal policies, it is always about the increase in tax. The conversation on reliefs is not usually amplified. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, ...
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13 Feb 2025 in Senate:
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quite a disappointment that out of that Conference of Parties, the developed countries were not able to achieve much. I believe that the commitments that were made did not exceed USD300 billion out of more than USD1 trillion that was required. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is further troubling that the United States of America (USA) has given notice of withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under which parties organize themselves under the Conference of Parties. The rest of the world cannot afford to go to sleep simply because the United States of America has ...
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advances in the storage of power, the advances in inverters, and in solar panels. This country needs to have a clear and robust renewable energy strategy that puts solar at the center. One country that has just recently suffered the vagaries of climate change, must be Zambia. Their energy mix is heavily reliant on hydro, and then there was the El Nino and La Nina that hit Southern Africa recently. There was a devastating drought in Southern Africa. The rivers dried, and so the hydro-power stations could not generate electricity. That country was engulfed in darkness. In Kenya today, we ...
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forest is equivalent to the emissions you are making. It is conmanship at the international level, and this country must be wary. I do hope that if we are going to hold the second Africa Climate Summit, which I am being told might be held in Africa, these are some of the conversations that will be there and that this Parliament will be robustly involved in the conversation at the Africa Climate Summit. It has been good when the chair of that committee at the African Union is the president of the Republic of Kenya. We hope that the numbers ...
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12 Feb 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would also wish to emphasize a few matters raised by Sen. Sifuna, the Senator for Nairobi City County, particularly in regards to the Community Health Promoters (CHPs). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the last session, you directed a small delegation to go into mediation with the National Assembly over the County Governments Additional Allocation Bill. I was privileged to be part of the delegation and I believe the leader of our delegation, Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, ought to bring a report back to this House because mediation collapsed. The talks collapsed because the National Assembly is ...
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12 Feb 2025 in Senate:
full amount directly to them. That is killing devolution because these are employees and agents of county governments. They cannot be converted to be agents of the national Government. We need to deal with this as a matter of urgency. I have seen a Notice of Motion in the Order Paper that we will dissolve committees. This House must also register its compliments to Sen. Mandago for the robust manner in which he has handled the Committee on Health as the Chair. He has brought visibility to the Senate because of the activities of that committee. I urge the gentlemen ...
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