TANZANIA CIVIL SOCETY STATEMENT TOWARDS THE UNFCCC

COP22
Dar es Salaam, 3.11.2016| We, network of civil society FORUMCC,
CARE Tanzania and Oxfam Tanzania issue this statement towards the
UNFCCC COP22 which will be held in Marrakesh-Morocco from 7-18 th
November 2016.
Acknowledge efforts made by UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to
accelerate ratification and operationalization of the Paris Agreement. As
of today, 3rd November 2016, more than eighty five (85) Parties have
ratified the Agreement.
Emphasize that ratification is not enough in itself; governments need to
immediately scale-up climate action even beyond the Agreement. This
should include cutting emissions and rapidly improving climate resilience
of the most vulnerable and marginalised people.
Call upon African countries to ratify the Paris Agreement and carefully
set implementation plans. Government of Tanzania and other African
countries should join hands in efforts to reduce GHG emissions by
ratifying the Paris Agreement. Though African contribution to GHG
emissions is very low but they still have opportunity to take the right
path towards a low emission development. African countries should put
in place strong frameworks for implementation of the Agreement to avoid
overburden with responsibilities that will aggravate poverty and turn
Africa into a dumping market.
We join hands to raise our voice on following key elements:
Mitigation

Call upon Parties to ensure that key features spelled out in Article 4 of
the Paris Agreement are considered while defining the mitigation
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section of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), including the

link to the long-term temperature goal set out in Article 2. The
progression on successive NDCs should be informed by outcomes of
the global stocktake. Also, global emission budget should be fairly and
equitably divided among all Parties in accordance with the principles
and provisions of the Convention so as to limit global warming in this
century to 1.5c. Distribution of the global emission budget should be
undertaken in accordance with historical responsibilities, equity,
capabilities and state of development.
Adaptation and Finance
Adaptation is a major challenge especially to developing countries; a
global goal for adaptation should therefore continuously be supported
with the purpose of enhancing the implementation of adaptation
actions as part of enabling economic development in the context of
sustainable

development.

Also,

developing

countries

should

be

assisted to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

as the vehicle for prioritizing and communicating medium and long
term adaptation needs;

Developed country Parties should scale-up the 2025 target for funds to
be mobilized beyond existing floor of $100 billion per year, based on
scale

of

implementation

needs

in

connection

with

the

1.5 oc

temperature goal and adaptation needs in connection with projected

impacts of climate change. While we recognize the importance of the
private sectors in the implementation of the Convention, developed
countries need to remains responsible and lead actor under the
Convention when it comes to financing adaptation;
Loss and Damage

Parties

should

strengthen

the

existing

Warsaw

International

Mechanism on loss and damage (WIM) following its review in 2016

and through, among other things, the establishment of the clearing
house for risk transfer and the task force for climate change
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displacement, as agreed in Paris. Also, developed country Parties

should strengthen financial support for loss and damage, through
operating entities of the financial mechanism.
Compliance
Parties should ensure that the established compliance mechanism
promotes implementation of, and enforcing compliance of all
provisions of the agreement in order to ensure compliance of
developed

countries

and

facilitate

voluntary

compliance

of

developing countries, particularly from Africa and LDCs.

Therefore,

UNFCCC

COP22

must

convert

the

current

political

momentum into strong international decisions and concrete initiatives to

build and finance pro-poor and gender-equitable climate resilience and
put the world on the right pathway towards 1.5c temperature goal.