MILESTONES TOWARDS A CLIMATE CHANGE BILL

The road towards giving our country a well thought out, widely informed and all inclusive Climate Change Bill has been long and challenging. However, the milestones covered and successes achieved so far gives us so much to be thankful about. The process began with an all countrywide thematic oriented baseline survey aimed at flashing out the major impacts of and factors around climate change adaptation and mitigation. These findings were discussed at a technical level and collated into reports that further informed the drafting of the preliminary draft zero Climate Change Bill. A lot has happened since 2009 to make this document technically correct, well representative, all inclusive, with a national and issue based focus coupled with a global orientation, such efforts that surmounted to this document include; raising support from development partners, technical workshops, community based discussion forums (Hearings), thematic working groups interrogations and discussions among other stakeholder forums. Much lobbying has been done to the Government, line ministries and parliament towards this end.