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Climate Action Network Tanzania (CAN Tanzania) is expecting to conduct a National Civil Societies Organization Platform on 24th May 2018 in Dar-es-salaam. The Platform will bring together stakeholders from regions of Dar-es-salaam, Dodoma, Tanga, and Pwani. It will involve Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Faith Based Organizations (FBOs), Higher Learning Institutions, Women Based Organizations, Youth representatives andRead More…
On 2nd and 3rd May 2018, Climate action Network Tanzania conducted a facilitation workshop to review existing and develop local strategies and plans on Renewable Energy, climate resilience and poverty reduction for Local Government Authorities. This facilitation workshop is part of the technical backstopping to be provided to village and district officer to review existingRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania has been advocating the usefulness and the role that Renewable Energy technologies can play in emission reduction, energy efficiency and poverty reduction. More importantly, emphasis has been directed on how effectively can Renewable Energy be used productively for community resilience building in the context of climate change, while reducing poverty andRead More…
Education for Sustainable Development goes beyond awareness-raising. Rather than simply making people aware that they should live more sustainably, we are finding that it is through engaged, locally situated practices where real change occurs. This is why One day everyone will live and work in a Sustainability Commons. AW 65 Final JIM TAYLOR[22101]
The Empowerment for Climate Leadership program is on progress. Recently, participants in Tanzania have again joined together and share knowledge on different aspects of climate change. The meeting was facilitated by Climate Action network Tanzania. Newsletter
Written by Onditi Msololo, The escalating weather extremes exacerbated by Climate Change have already triggered unprecedented social havoc and food insecurity particularly in pastoralist and peasant communities in some areas of Tanzania.
Written by Shadrack Sylivester, Climate change and poverty are among of the major global challenges victimizing development efforts of many countries across the global. These challenges act like the twinning partners that are affecting each other as their reaction effects proceed in either side to the extent of creating a chaotic future if will notRead More…
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Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, 17th October 2017: By deploying 100% renewable energy, Tanzania can provide access to reliable energy for all its citizens, while increasing living standards to the level of industrialized countries by 2050.
By Shadrack Sylivester, Climate Action Network Tanzania Tanzania is among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and many others in the world affected badly by loss and damage triggered by climate change, on other side of the coin it has gone further affected the national efforts towards sustainable development agenda. The risks are extremely predicted toRead More…
The Unseen Spheres of Climate Change: Shedding light on climate induced non-economic loss and damage
By Michiel Hermans, Climate Action Network (CAN) – Tanzania The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, erratic rainfall patterns, sea level rise and other climate events are causing loss and damage to human and natural systems. The public discourse on climate change appears to centre around two main pillars; mitigation and adaptation, leavingRead More…
By Msololo Onditi, Climate Action Network Tanzania Have you ever thought that climate induced loses and damages affect not only material and physical things, but also cultural practices, knowledge and how community interacts in different cultural settings? This was revealed during a 3 days training based on Climate induced Loss and Damage in Tanzania OrganizedRead More…
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Tanzania are mainly focusing on increasing pro-poor energy access. To support this endeavor there is a necessity for regulations, policies and financial incentives that can enable access to reliable, affordable and sustainable modern energy services. Furthermore, notable investment in capacity building and awareness raising among key stakeholders, policy makers andRead More…
Climate change is one of the pressing issue in Tanzania, and media have been demonstrated to play a significant role in shaping the public perception and policy agenda, though a number of challenges remain unchecked on communicating climate change related agenda. Very unfortunate, Journalists are faced with multiple challenges in framing, packaging and communicating climateRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania is planned to conduct Training on advancing the role of Journalists in communicating Renewable Energy in the East African region on 16th October 2017 in Dar es Salaam.
Climate Action Network Tanzania is planned to conduct a High Level Conference and Workshop on 100% Renewable Energy scenario for Tanzania from 17th – 19th October 2017 in Dar es Salaam. Download PDF
With increased focus on industrialization, Tanzania aims to become a middle income economy by 2025, a vision well-articulated in its vision 2025 and FYDP II. As part of the contribution towards the country’s endeavor to become a middle income, CAN Tanzania is currently working on the 100% Renewable Energy Scenario Study which among other things,Read More…
The Climate Resilience and Sustainability – Young Leaders Training Course, organised by CAN Tanzania and Germanwatch is a model project to be launched in June 2017. Goal of the project is to strengthen civil society driven grassroot-level education and advocacy on climate resilience (mitigation and adaptation) activities. The project will receive additional guidance from anRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania is expecting to conduct the journalists training and national dialogue on communicating Climate Change to the public and across the globe. The idea behind this training and the dialogue in question is to strengthen and improve the contribution and efficiency of the journalists and other stakeholders in communicating Climate change initiativesRead More…
This project intends to strengthen the knowledge and understanding among stakeholders as away to reduce loss and damage associated with adverse impacts of climate change related to both extreme weather events and slow onset process. The overarching goal is therefore to capacitate stakeholders in Tanzania to undertake works that will address matters on economic andRead More…
The dialogues will focus on advocating for pro-poor services increased funds and improved policies and inclusive participation in planning and implementation. It will involve Community Based Organizations, media, women, smallholder farmers and pastoralists, fisher folks and the general public population. Finally, an information session will be organized to bring all the stakeholders together for resolutionsRead More…
Climate Action Network-Tanzania organized workshop with the aim to strengthening Civil Society Organizations and Extension workers on how to influence agriculture related policy, strategies and plans around climate change and poverty reduction The training was facilitated by an appropriate expert from the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries of the United Republic of Tanzania.
In 2016, CAN-Tanzania, the World Future Council and Bread for the World embarked on an 18-months project in Tanzania to develop a coherent strategy on how to implement 100% Renewable Energy as part of the country’s Sustainable Low Carbon Development (LCD) and Poverty Reduction Goals. This project builds on the previous experiences of the projectRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania under the slogan of Light The Way championed by the United Nations General Assembly held a meeting to cope with The General Debate of the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly that will take place from 28 September – 6 October 2015 discussing on how best the identified globalRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania organized a global day of action response intending to expose Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), the general public and government Leaders to experience and participate on a global day of action to demand governments to have clear plan for funding a sustainable future. The action focused on taking this opportunity to haveRead More…
TANZANIA CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT FOR THE CLIMATE SUMMIT-18th September 2014 We, the Civil Society Organisations working on climate change and environment-related issues in Tanzania united together under Forum CC, CAN Tanzania, Youth CAN and Oxfam Tanzania; share a common agenda for the upcoming UN Climate Summit 2014 which will be held in New York onRead More…
Climate Action Network Tanzania is expecting to conduct the journalists training and national dialogue on communicating Climate Change to the public and across the globe. The idea behind this training and the dialogue in question is to strengthen and improve the contribution and efficiency of the journalists and other stakeholders in communicating Climate change initiativesRead More…
Tanzania is among the lower income Sub-Saharan countries and many others across the globe badly impacted by loss and damage resulted from climate change whilst it has affected also the national efforts towards sustainable development. This burden is projected to increase severely if no effective measures taken to address the challenge in question in aRead More…
We are pleased to announce that the UN Climate Summit 2014 will be held in New York on 23rd September 2014. Following the lack of urgency and slow progress of the climate change negotiations and actions at global, national and local levels whereby the impacts of climate change have already affected the world especially theRead More…
June 6, 2017: The Paris Agreement represents an unprecedented global consensus on an issue of extreme urgency – a collective agreement by the world’s governments to do what is needed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. The decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Agreement signals that the Trump administration isRead More…
US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, developing countries must stand firm