Roselinda Soipan Tuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this invitation and for the questions raised by the Hon. Senator for Kisumu County. Indeed, on matters of climate change and environment, there is a very intricate link between the functions of the national Government and those of county The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: governments. The role of the Senate thus becomes very crucial in terms of oversighting the implementation of climate action. In terms of background, climate change remains a major threat to our nation's economic, social and environmental well-being. The major challenge remains to be how we will overcome the current low levels of climate resilience and the adaptive capacity that continue to threaten the ability of our local communities and key sectors of the economy to withstand the climate shocks that we find ourselves in. The Ministry is the Government lead on all issues of climate change and has, through the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: highlighting that in response to the Senator's question, we have been involved in fundraising efforts and we have a list of projects that have come through. Any fundraising that we do lands in counties to address the climate change challenges. The Ministry, through the Development Partner Group (DPG) under the office of the Deputy President, has been championing the alignment of all development partner projects and programmes to the Government manifesto. It has also ensured focus on tangible projects on the ground for us to realize maximum impact. Regarding climate change initiatives that we have put in place, we have ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: We have also listed the National Climate Change Framework Policy of 2018, the Climate Change Finance Policy of 2018 and the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, 2019 as some of the legislative frameworks that set the stage for climate action in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important to note that the mandate of the Ministry is providing operational coordination on climate change, technical backstopping, requisite climate change policy and legal environment. In this regard, the core mandate of the Ministry is to offer coordination of various sectors. We have some sectors identified as the Intergovernmental Panel ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: climate resilient development pathway in the long-term. The Ministry, through the support of development partners, including the Green Climate Fund, GCF and FLOCA, among others, facilitated the establishment and capacity building of climate change units across the counties and state departments in the country in line with the Climate Change Act of 2016. The Ministry has also established climate change environment governance structures at the county level. These are county climate change committees under the respective County Climate Change Acts and County Environmental Committees under the Environmental Management and Coordination Act. To sum up my response to the first question, ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: public validation process where the technical working group incorporated stakeholder input; and all these processes led to the successful launch of the National Climate Change Action Plan 2023-2027 during the Africa Climate Summit last year. That just gives a snapshot of the critical need for the Ministry to work with a cross-sector of stakeholders as we develop our plans. Question No.57, focuses on me to explain the measures put in place to enhance the capacity of each county government to implement the climate change initiatives in their respective counties. This includes the technical expertise of the county governments to address ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: I am well guided, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am happy if the Senators have the copies of my statement because this programme is very important for purposes of collaboration between the Senate and the national Government through my Ministry, to ensure that we attain maximum impact of the intended objective of this programme, which is to fund climate action at the local level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have an annexure there which outlines how money has gone to each county. This is a very unique programme, which is based on results and one of the conditions for the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: On institutional measures, we have climate change units in every county, as we speak. These are initiatives that have happened slightly in less than two years because our focus has been on operationalizing the law in this regard. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the Financial Year 2023/2024, we have seen significant prioritization of climate action at the county level in terms of resource allocation which is very encouraging. In conclusion, on the question raised by the Senator for Kisumu County, although much is already happening with the climate change crisis being manifested ever so harshly across the globe with the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the supplementary question from the Senator of Kisumu County. I highlighted that Kenya is touted as the highest trader in carbon credits in the region. Most of these transactions have been voluntary between private project proponents and communities at various levels and in different sectors. There is a separation between the voluntary carbon projects, which are private and then we have the regulated carbon trading programmes. These have not been in the radar of the Government. That is the reason we have focused on reviewing the law and putting in place a carbon ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: the designated national authority. This registry will be fed by sectors specific registries; from the energy, agriculture and other sectors. I would like to assure this House and Kenyans that we engaged in a rigorous public participation process so as to ensure that this space which is shrouded in a lot of mystery will come to the fore with the full implementation of the law. I wish to invite Members of this House to pay keen attention to the legislation as it is because we already have a lot of interest expressed at different levels, including a government-to-government arrangement around ... view