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Just starting: #COP26Tanzania eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-are-the… with @HelenClarkNZ and others, by @BritTanzSoc

@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ What are the implications of the energy transition for Tanzania? The world is in an accelerating process of moving away from generating electricity from fossil fuels. Tanzania is both a source of fossil fuels, and a user.

@BritTanzSoc : "EITI was designed to ensure countries with energy resources could benefit as much as possible from those resources - sustainable development, revenues and employment. How will future revenue flows be affected by the energy transition?

@BritTanzSoc "EITI transparency has generated much information re extractive industries, incredibly useful for governments wrestling with what the energy transition means for them.

@BritTanzSoc "Natural gas still has a role as a transition fuel. Tanzania still needs a lot of foreign investment to capitalise on natural gas. Tanzania's nickel deposits are also key to Lithium-Ion batteries. Investment, good governance, etc. will be critical for Tanzania to benefit

@BritTanzSoc "If Tanzania can ensure good governance in the extractive industries sector, the country is in a good position to benefit from the global energy transition" - from nickel, lithium and other minerals found in Tanzania

@BritTanzSoc See kabanganickel.com/en/the-project… for info on nickel in Tanzania #COP26Tanzania

@BritTanzSoc Taking care re public debt for potentially stranded investments will be important - eg natural gas

@BritTanzSoc Development of offshore LNG would be likely to raise revenue for Tanzania, but critical to ensure good governance in order to fulfill the potential

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@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ key point: "If Tanzania can manage her resources well, especially Nickel and Lithium, she can be a beneficiary of the global energy transition"
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@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ Tanzania is currently making "reasonable" progress on EITI, but needs to address other matters in order to progress further. "The country knows exactly what it has to do"
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@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ Next up, Kenneth Davis Kasigila of CRDB

@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ eiti.org/board-decision…

@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ Paris agreement included commitments for climate finance for both mitigation (reducing carbon emissions, increasing capture) and adaptation (to reduce negative impacts) in developing countries. $100bn promise has not yet been met. But there are opportunities for Tz
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@BritTanzSoc @HelenClarkNZ In Oct 2021, CRDB financed $100m projects for adapting agriculture in Tanzania
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@BritTanzSoc Huge commitments go back several years, but now real progress with climate finance is starting to actually happen.
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@BritTanzSoc Next up: Jo Anderson of Carbon Tanzania
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@BritTanzSoc Managing forests in Tanzania will be crucial. Huge commitments on forests came out of COP26, very positive. In practice, how might this play out?

Carbon Tanzania manages forests, protects forests, reducing carbon emissions and earning carbon credits.

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@BritTanzSoc Tanzania has committed to reduce emissions to 25% below baseline by 2030, through a combination of energy, agriculture, land use and forestry. Land use and forestry account for a massive 72.7% of Tanzania's current emissions.

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@BritTanzSoc Protecting standing forests is the most important part of this (plus some forest restoration).

Doing this can both reduce emissions and earn money by getting and selling carbon credits for doing so.

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@BritTanzSoc Accounting for carbon is critical: Tanzania has the National Carbon Monitoring Centre.

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@BritTanzSoc There is money on the table already for creating emissions reductions through forest protection in Tanzania.
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@BritTanzSoc Tanzania's National Climate Change Response Strategy: taees.org/wp-content/upl…
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@BritTanzSoc Next up @neemalugangira MP, speaking on agriculture

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@BritTanzSoc @neemalugangira Climate can have major impact on soil - organic matter, erosion, water, temperature, etc.

Local seeds likely to be more tolerant of weather shocks, pests, etc. How can we protect this resource?

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@BritTanzSoc @neemalugangira In agriculture sector, huge employment, dominated by women, yet women are marginalised in terms of accessing inputs and finance. Need to make agriculture more gender-sensitive, and to build this into climate finance for adaptation / food systems

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@BritTanzSoc @neemalugangira How can we ensure agriculture sector NGOs are part of the conversation, not just private sector? In practice, NGOs are effectively shut out of the climate change / food systems conversation.

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@BritTanzSoc "Food and nutrition are critical to peace and security" @neemalugangira
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@BritTanzSoc Next: @MSalimu Mwanahamisi Singano
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@BritTanzSoc "We have missed an opportunity in Cop26 to deliver a response on the scale that the climate crisis demands of us."
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@BritTanzSoc "We felt COP26 would meet the scale demanded of us, but when heads of state left, we saw the lack of ambition to push commitments from developed countries."
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@BritTanzSoc We're not seeing the progress we need, including in Tanzania, on gender
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@BritTanzSoc Need a shift in narrative in Tz: climate change is not just an environmental issue, its a holistic development issue - it affects everything, risk of undermining progress if thinking is not joined up. Needs institutional realignment, under Pres office, not VP
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@BritTanzSoc Next, final speaker: Dr Sixbert Mwanga, Climate Action Network Tanzania
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@BritTanzSoc Serious problems with cost of attending COP26 and access to discussion rooms
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@BritTanzSoc And now the actual final speaker, John @LordWalney, UK Trade Envoy to Tanzania
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@BritTanzSoc COP26 was at best a staging post, need much more to come
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@BritTanzSoc Climate financing, energy production, agriculture are the key issues in Tanzania. Government capacity to take this on, access to markets are important. UK export finance policy needs to support this.
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@BritTanzSoc No reason in terms of science why many of Tanzania's neighbours are more productive in ag yields (eg coffee) than in Tanzania.
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@BritTanzSoc @BritTanzSoc chair Paul Harrison @ProtectWild : "window of opportunity" summarises this meeting
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@HelenClarkNZ @BritTanzSoc @threadreaderapp unroll

@BritTanzSoc @ProtectWild And we're done #COP26Tanzania