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Climate Change Bill, 2012 … where dots did not connect

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Background Kenya has realized a number of milestones in matters of climate change. In 1994, the nation ratified the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change  – an international environmental treaty that was produced during the Rio EarthSummit  (formally known as United Nation Conference on Environment and Development) in June 1992 - as well as Kyoto Protocol  in 2005. Kenya has also been well represented by government officials, non-governmental organizational and other actors during the COP processes since 1995. The nation has also developed key policy and institutional frameworks, such as National Climate Change Response Strategy (2009) and National Climate Change Action Plan (2013-2017). Kenya is also the second country that has established a climate change secretariat in Africa. The Climate Change Bill (2012)  could have been ranked among these landmarks, had it been assented to and passed as an act of parliament. But it didn’t. So, what went wrong?? The journey