Financing Loss & Damage
In the ongoing COP29, the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage has increased to $720M after a funding pledged by Sweden at COP29 amounting to 200M kr (approximately $19M).
Will this end like the previous Climate pledges made far year back in 2010s.
Donor funding for nutrition interventions has gone down alarmingly and threaten efforts to fight malnutrition in the #climatechange context. The widening funding gap, has reached a staggering $2.1 billion, which is an unprecedented level of unmet need for nutrition interventions
There is nowhere in the World where #climatechange is not spoken, but in Africa, the situation is taken more seriously.
Dr. @mithikamwenda addressing the EALA Parliamentalians Forum on Water and Climate Change
Energy Transition in Africa
Despite on huge potentials of #renewableenergy in Africa, It is the only Continent where there an increasing trend of cooking using Charcoal And Firewood
Prof Sokona
Water access is affected by conflicts, but it can also cause it. With an increasing #imatechange effects, likelihood of conflicts outfitting peace is high.
Let's join hand to fight climate change for retaining water as the centre of life
@PACJA1@azamtvtz@Forumcctza
๐๐ With hindsight to the current trends of wetlands degradation, we need to increase awareness to communities not only on the free benefits accruing from intact wetlands, but also on the social and environmental costs of disrupting such ecosystems
@Forumcctza@PACJA1
๐ฟ#WetlandRevival in Tz has transboundary benefits, but multiple values inherent in wetland systems are either ignored or underestimated in planning for a single interests. Letโs restore, protect, and cherish these vital ecosystems
@PACJA1@mithika_mwenda@Forumcctza
The fact that #COP28 did not arrive at a clear language and explicit binding statements surrounding the funding arrangements in the loss and damage, as Africans including developing and vulnerable State we still have to keep pressing clear commitments around this matter
@PACJA1
With all the challenges #climatechqnge is causing in the oceans, sea weed farming in Zanzibar has remained at the rise and growing everyday
In the See weed commemoration in Zanzibar issues of climate change has increasingly being mentioned as key
@undptanzani
Promotion of #ecological agriculture as an economic pathways for youth, the argument is how it can compete in the market where Commercial agriculture is dominant with a high level of mechanized farming.
Speaking on #greenjob with youth, some overlapping discussions runs around the pathways to be taken. Should we go for a gree process or emphasize on having green products in the #greenjob value chain?
Tanzania is a leading the East Africa Region on #energyaccess
This is according to the Tracked finance for electricity in 20 countries that make up 80%of the world's population in 2019.
@mithika_mwenda@PACJA1@azamtvtz@CEO_WWFKenya
#Cop28UAE is the first to dedicate a day to health. As a global health organization, we know climate and health are linked. CHAI is proud to partner with @COP28_UAE@MalariaNoMore & @RLMglobalhealth to prioritize health at the next UN climate summit. https://t.co/n7rV2unZhO