Carbon Tanzania

• 1: Home
• 2: Tanzania
  • 2.1: Tanzanian Perspective
  • 2.2: Climate Change in Tanzania
• 3: The Carbon Market
  • 3.1: Global Carbon Market
  • 3.5: The Compliance Market
  • 3.6: The Voluntary Carbon Market
• 4: Projects
  • 4.1: Habitat Rehabilitation
  • 4.2: Monduli Forest
  • 4.3: Community-based
  • 4.4: Energy alternatives
• 5: Setting standards
• 6: Offset your carbon
  • 6.1: Tanzanian tour operators
  • 6.2: Agents based in the UK and USA
  • 6.3: Organisations
• 7: Contact us

Projects and Technology

In 1994 the National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) was instated to incorporate environmental concerns into national policy. Through this policy, six areas where identified as priority items: land degradation, lack of accessible and god quality water for urban and rural inhabitants, pollution, loss of wildlife habitats, deterioration of marine and freshwater systems and deforestation. Following NEAP and further country studies, National Action Plan on Climate Change was developed in 1997 to integrate findings and recommendations and initiate mitigating options.

The National Action Plan on Climate Change proposes that over the next 20 years the governments macroeconomic plan should reflect the coming climate changes, public awareness raised including the introduction of climate change and its effects starting in secondary school, support of projects reducing Green House Gasses (GHG), and fiscal measures will be introduced as incentives to increase environmental conservation.

Local projects have also been initiated within the field of forest management (including protection and rehabilitation of the existing forests) based on the Tanzania Forest Action Plan (TFAP).

Examples of current and past projects include:

• Controlled harvesting in the Uluguru Mountains, coastal region, and Mount Kilimanjaro
• Production of seedlings in the Tanga, Iringa, Morogoro and Mbeya regions
• Support of the existing plantation experiments in the Muheza and Korogwe districts in the Tanga region
• The reservation of forests in Ruvuma, Mtwara, Lindi, Coas, Rukwa and Kigoma through the demarcation of boundaries, screening of firelines and controlled harvesting and burning (CEEST, 1999)

There is also a financial benefit in reforestation and the prevention of deforestation on a national level – If Tanzania initiates a reforestation rate of 100,000 hectacres over 10 years, from 2003 to 2012, this will amount to approximately 2.8 million ton of carbon sequestered and a financial value of 19 million US dollars in reforestation alone (with the cost of carbon at 10 USD per ton).

Furthermore, by curbing the deforestation rate by 20% (approximately 64,600 hectacres annually) we will prevent 14.5 million ton of carbon from entering the atmosphere and benefit from an additional financial value of 110.8 million USD (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 2002).  By supporting Carbon Tanzania’s effort to protect indigenous forests, replant damaged forests, and support community development you will increase the value of the forests, increase carbon absorption and support the economy of Tanzania.