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Kukasirika kwako hakumuondolei kuonekana bora,ana mapungufu machache sikatai,Lakini ni raisi bora sana.Kama ukikasirika sana hama nchi.
The Guardian (UK)- UAE owns 8% of Tanzania’s forest
The Guardian (UK)- UAE owns 8% of Tanzania’s forest
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Wajinga hata wakiwa milioni haibadilishi ujinga wao
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Manufaa ya kuuza rasilimali kwa mgeni????
Earthmover
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Miradi mingi ya Carbon ni wizi wa waziwazi
Misitu ya kwetu iweje wachukuwe % kubwa ya mauzo kwenye Kapu lao
TFS hii dhambi haita waacha....wawekezaji wa ukweli mmewakwamisha mkawabeba Waarabu...hii miradi ni bom lingine huko mbele ...Carbon GOLD BLOOD
Rethink....
Misitu ya kwetu iweje wachukuwe % kubwa ya mauzo kwenye Kapu lao
TFS hii dhambi haita waacha....wawekezaji wa ukweli mmewakwamisha mkawabeba Waarabu...hii miradi ni bom lingine huko mbele ...Carbon GOLD BLOOD
Rethink....
Earthmover
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Duh cheki hii mburura.....
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Inasisimua na kutia hasira sanaInaitwa new scramble for Afrika, shehe wa UAE ana own 8% of our forest na siyo kwetu tu na kwingine labda inaeleza safari nyingi za UAE kila mara kulingana na hiyo habari kutoka kwenye renowned newspaper hakuna faida yoyote tutaipata Shehe wa dubai atavuna mabilioni someni wenyewe …
The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK
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Forests in Liberia … it has struck a deal covering 10% of its land. Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images
The age of extinction
The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of land larger than the UK. The deals, made by a little-known member of Dubai’s ruling royal family, encompass up to 20% of the countries concerned – and have raised concerns about a new “scramble for Africa” and the continent’s carbon resources.
Such deals can deny the rights of people living on the land to make use of it for their own purposes while providing unclear benefits to the environment
As chairman of the company Blue Carbon, which is barely a year old, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum has announced several exploratory deals with African states that are home to crucial wildlife havens and biodiversity hotspots, for land that represents billions of dollars in potential offsetting revenue. The sheikh has no previous experience in nature conservation projects.
So far, the deals cover a fifth of Zimbabwe, 10% of Liberia, 10% of Zambia and 8% of Tanzania, amounting to a total area the size of the UK. In October, Blue Carbon signed its latest deal for “millions” of hectares of forest in Kenya. The company said it was also working on an agreement with Pakistan. More deals are expected in the coming months. The carbon assets associated with the deals could be bought up by major polluters and used towards their own targets under the Paris agreement.
Blue Carbon is based in the UAE, where the Cop28 summit will begin this week. The company hopes credits from the schemes will be traded as country-level contributions to the 2015 Paris agreement, it said in a statement.
However, concerns have been raised about the agreements, as well as about the sheikh’s previous business ventures, including his role in deals to sell Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine at a premium during the pandemic, and an Italian fugitive listed as a Blue Carbon advisor.
The agreements come amid widespread scrutiny of the ability of carbon markets to fund climate change mitigation effectively while protecting biodiversity and the rights of communities.
“Carbon markets are an important element of the puzzle because they can really channel resources to activities that otherwise would not be implemented,” said Axel Michaelowa, a carbon markets expert at the University of Zurich. “If the rules are interpreted in a very lenient way, we see rubbish credits being generated, then of course the trust in the market could take a big hit.”
Sheikh Ahmed declined to be interviewed for this article through his office. Blue Carbon said its “vision with these projects is not only to accelerate global climate action but also to tackle crucial environmental challenges at the local level thereby ushering in community benefits and advancing sustainable development in the countries involved”.
‘Huge swathes of land are being seized’
While little detail about the Blue Carbon deals has been made public, the Guardian has spoken with people involved and has viewed details of one draft contract from Liberia in July. The deal would give the UAE firm the exclusive rights to sell the credits for 30 years, taking 70% of the sale of the credits. Under the rules of the Paris agreement, countries that sold the credits would not be able to use them for their own commitments.
Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum meets the president of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema.
Some of those involved in these deals highlighted that carbon markets provide much-needed financial support to African countries where other sources of climate finance were not delivering. However, others raised concerns, saying the size of the land deals amount to “a new scramble for Africa”.
“Huge swathes of land across Africa are being seized by Blue Carbon via multiple, decades-long deals, sealing the fate of the very land that millions of vulnerable communities depend upon for their livelihood,” said Alexandra Benjamin, a forest governance campaigner with the NGO Fern, who focuses on Liberia and Ghana. “At Cop28, countries will meet and discuss the rules for carbon offsetting – these negotiators should call these deals for what they are: land grabs. Forest communities must have free prior and informed consent before any deal is signed,” she said.
Many African leaders are enthusiastic supports of carbon markets to fund climate change mitigation following broken promises on other sources of finance. Kenyan president William Ruto who said the continent’s carbon resources are an “unparalleled economic goldmine”.
Blue Carbon said the carbon projects would benefit communities and would operate in markets with stringent auditing. They said free, prior and informed consent was key to their project development strategy, underscoring the difference between the voluntary carbon market – where human rights issues have been a serious concern – and compliance markets.
In Liberia, NGOs have raised questions about the implication of the potential agreement for communities’ land rights and people’s access to the forest, which is often essential to their livelihoods.
David Obura, founding director of Cordio east Africa and head of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), said: “Carbon is one of the only contributions from nature to people that is easily monetised. So, it means that all those that are not monetised get excluded or forgotten about. There are such high risks of exclusivity and obtaining access and rights away from people.”
In theory, revenue from the credits would fund climate adaptation and nature conservation in developing countries, protecting carbon sinks and biodiversity. The Blue Carbon projects would be among the largest of their kind, but governments are yet to sign off their inclusion in formal carbon trading under article 6 of the Paris agreement.
The carbon trading system could see large polluting countries such as the UK, Saudi Arabia or China buy emission removals or reductions from countries in the developing world to meet their own targets through offsets. The UAE has sought to pitch itself as a leading purchaser of African carbon credits, pledging to buy $450m (£356m) of African credits by 2030 at the Africa Climate Summit in September.
The Ruwais refinery and petrochemical complex in Al Ruwais, United Arab Emirates. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The United Arab Emirates has the third biggest plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, analysis revealed this year. Its plans are surpassed only by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Blue Carbon has signed a deal with First Abu Dhabi Bank, the UAE’s largest, to finance the forest carbon project investments in September. The UN Development Programme confirmed it is in contact with the firm about how to develop the schemes.
Blue Carbon said it was committed to stringent rules about suitable methodologies for the carbon projects and would follow whatever governments agreed at Cop28. It said its team had previous experience developing carbon projects.
• Additional reporting by Angela Giuffrida and Pjotr Sauer
Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X, formerly known as Twitter, for all the latest news and features.
Ndo maana wanakimbilia kubadili sheria ya umiliki wa ardhi ili wageni wapewe umiliki wa moja kwa moja.
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Mkuu ila bora Dunia imeanza kulimulika hilo.....
Carbon markets ...kuna wizi wenye mlolongo kati ya madalali(Makampuni) Wahakiki na Wanunuzi...
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Halafu wanakataa kuwapa uraia pacha diaspora wenye vinasaba vya Tanzania ili kuwazuia kuwa na uhalali wa umiliki wa ardhi.
Akili gani hii? Nchi nyingine maskini kama Zambia, Liberia ndio mfano wa kuigwa
Huu ni ujinga wa karne unampa mtu ardhi yako. Atawapiga marufuku wananchi wanayoizunguka hiyo ardhi kuitumia.
Unampa kwa mikataba ambao hauwekwi wazi, hakuna uwazi kwenye terms and conditions zao kama mkataba wa DP world.
Wenyewe Dubai ndio watauza hizo carbon credit kwa wengine na kuchukua 70% ya faida.
Kwanini, tusihifadhi wenyewe hii misitu kama tulivyofanya toka uhuru na tusiuze wenyewe direct kwa mtu wa mwisho?
Kumuweka huyu dalali kwa miaka 30 na Mo dewji kunalisaidia vipi hili taifa?
Hii kampuni Carbon Tanzania inamilikiwa na nani?
Kuna uhusiano gani kati ya kampuni ya Blue Carbon, Carbon Tanzania na Mo Dewji?
Shareholders na stakeholders ni akina nani?
Kwanini dili kubwa kama hili in effect kuuza ardhi ya Tanganyika inafanywa kinyemela bila mjadala wa kitaifa?
Kuna uhusiano gani kati ya kampuni ya Blue Carbon, Carbon Tanzania na Mo Dewji?
Shareholders na stakeholders ni akina nani?
Kwanini dili kubwa kama hili in effect kuuza ardhi ya Tanganyika inafanywa kinyemela bila mjadala wa kitaifa?
Tanzania signs major carbon credit deal covering national parks
The carbon credits project will be implemented in six national parks, which span 1.8 million hectares.
www.bbc.co.uk
Tanzania signs major carbon credit deal covering national parks
Tanzania has signed a deal for one of East Africa's biggest land-based carbon credit projects.
The project covers six national parks, spanning 1.8 million hectares (4.4 million acres).
Tanzania, which has forest resources of nearly 48 million hectares, has emerged as one of the leading African players in the global carbon credit trade.
It comes as world leaders are in Dubai for the COP28 summit aimed at finding ways to tackle climate change.
Carbon credits work like this: an organisation that pollutes can buy a credit which is worth one tonne of carbon dioxide.
The money paid by the organisation is meant to go towards carbon-lowering schemes, so for every tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted, the credit represents a tonne of CO2 that was captured.
In this way, the overall amount of (CO2) and other pollutants produced is supposed to stay the same, or even be lowered.
The new deal is an alliance between Tanzania's national park management agency, Tanapa, and Carbon Tanzania, a locally based company.
Some of the revenue from the sale of carbon credits will go to Tanapa and local communities, Carbon Tanzania said on Thursday.
Aside from facilitating the trade in carbon credits, the project will also "focus on the protection, conservation, and enhanced management of these national park areas, safeguarding their natural ecosystems and vital wildlife resources", the company added.
The six national parks designated for the project are Burigi-Chato, Katavi Plains, Ugalla River, Mkomazi, Gombe Stream and Mahale Mountains.
The project will receive additional funding from Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited, an agricultural and manufacturing company owned by prominent Tanzanian businessman Mohammed Dewji.
In February, Tanzania entered a preliminary agreement for an even far bigger carbon credit deal, covering 8.1 million hectares, nearly 8% of Tanzania's total land mass.
February's agreement was entered with Blue Carbon, a UAE company that says it provides nature-based solutions and carbon removal projects using modern approaches.
In recent years, there has been an increase in carbon-offsetting companies taking control of land in sub-Saharan Africa for multi-year carbon-credit projects, which some critics say is a form of neo-colonialism.
Blue Carbon has been particularly criticised by environmentalists.
The company says its projects are done under strict regulation and benefit local communities. It also says that countries partner with it voluntarily.
The Emirati company has also signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) relating to carbon credits with other African countries, including Liberia, Kenya, Zambia and Angola.
If finalised, these proposals could produce deals granting Blue Carbon control of massive areas of land in these countries for use in carbon credits production.
Tanzania signs major carbon credit deal covering national parks
The carbon credits project will be implemented in six national parks, which span 1.8 million hectares.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Duh! Huyu Mama ni laana. Na kuna siku huyu atakuwa ndiye Rais atakayechukiwa kuliko mwingine yeyote.Inaitwa new scramble for Afrika, shehe wa UAE ana own 8% of our forest na siyo kwetu tu na kwingine labda inaeleza safari nyingi za UAE kila mara kulingana na hiyo habari kutoka kwenye renowned newspaper hakuna faida yoyote tutaipata Shehe wa dubai atavuna mabilioni someni wenyewe …
The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK
Show caption
Forests in Liberia … it has struck a deal covering 10% of its land. Photograph: John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images
The age of extinction
The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of land larger than the UK. The deals, made by a little-known member of Dubai’s ruling royal family, encompass up to 20% of the countries concerned – and have raised concerns about a new “scramble for Africa” and the continent’s carbon resources.
Such deals can deny the rights of people living on the land to make use of it for their own purposes while providing unclear benefits to the environment
As chairman of the company Blue Carbon, which is barely a year old, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum has announced several exploratory deals with African states that are home to crucial wildlife havens and biodiversity hotspots, for land that represents billions of dollars in potential offsetting revenue. The sheikh has no previous experience in nature conservation projects.
So far, the deals cover a fifth of Zimbabwe, 10% of Liberia, 10% of Zambia and 8% of Tanzania, amounting to a total area the size of the UK. In October, Blue Carbon signed its latest deal for “millions” of hectares of forest in Kenya. The company said it was also working on an agreement with Pakistan. More deals are expected in the coming months. The carbon assets associated with the deals could be bought up by major polluters and used towards their own targets under the Paris agreement.
Blue Carbon is based in the UAE, where the Cop28 summit will begin this week. The company hopes credits from the schemes will be traded as country-level contributions to the 2015 Paris agreement, it said in a statement.
However, concerns have been raised about the agreements, as well as about the sheikh’s previous business ventures, including his role in deals to sell Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine at a premium during the pandemic, and an Italian fugitive listed as a Blue Carbon advisor.
The agreements come amid widespread scrutiny of the ability of carbon markets to fund climate change mitigation effectively while protecting biodiversity and the rights of communities.
“Carbon markets are an important element of the puzzle because they can really channel resources to activities that otherwise would not be implemented,” said Axel Michaelowa, a carbon markets expert at the University of Zurich. “If the rules are interpreted in a very lenient way, we see rubbish credits being generated, then of course the trust in the market could take a big hit.”
Sheikh Ahmed declined to be interviewed for this article through his office. Blue Carbon said its “vision with these projects is not only to accelerate global climate action but also to tackle crucial environmental challenges at the local level thereby ushering in community benefits and advancing sustainable development in the countries involved”.
‘Huge swathes of land are being seized’
While little detail about the Blue Carbon deals has been made public, the Guardian has spoken with people involved and has viewed details of one draft contract from Liberia in July. The deal would give the UAE firm the exclusive rights to sell the credits for 30 years, taking 70% of the sale of the credits. Under the rules of the Paris agreement, countries that sold the credits would not be able to use them for their own commitments.
Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum meets the president of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema.
Some of those involved in these deals highlighted that carbon markets provide much-needed financial support to African countries where other sources of climate finance were not delivering. However, others raised concerns, saying the size of the land deals amount to “a new scramble for Africa”.
“Huge swathes of land across Africa are being seized by Blue Carbon via multiple, decades-long deals, sealing the fate of the very land that millions of vulnerable communities depend upon for their livelihood,” said Alexandra Benjamin, a forest governance campaigner with the NGO Fern, who focuses on Liberia and Ghana. “At Cop28, countries will meet and discuss the rules for carbon offsetting – these negotiators should call these deals for what they are: land grabs. Forest communities must have free prior and informed consent before any deal is signed,” she said.
Many African leaders are enthusiastic supports of carbon markets to fund climate change mitigation following broken promises on other sources of finance. Kenyan president William Ruto who said the continent’s carbon resources are an “unparalleled economic goldmine”.
Blue Carbon said the carbon projects would benefit communities and would operate in markets with stringent auditing. They said free, prior and informed consent was key to their project development strategy, underscoring the difference between the voluntary carbon market – where human rights issues have been a serious concern – and compliance markets.
In Liberia, NGOs have raised questions about the implication of the potential agreement for communities’ land rights and people’s access to the forest, which is often essential to their livelihoods.
David Obura, founding director of Cordio east Africa and head of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), said: “Carbon is one of the only contributions from nature to people that is easily monetised. So, it means that all those that are not monetised get excluded or forgotten about. There are such high risks of exclusivity and obtaining access and rights away from people.”
In theory, revenue from the credits would fund climate adaptation and nature conservation in developing countries, protecting carbon sinks and biodiversity. The Blue Carbon projects would be among the largest of their kind, but governments are yet to sign off their inclusion in formal carbon trading under article 6 of the Paris agreement.
The carbon trading system could see large polluting countries such as the UK, Saudi Arabia or China buy emission removals or reductions from countries in the developing world to meet their own targets through offsets. The UAE has sought to pitch itself as a leading purchaser of African carbon credits, pledging to buy $450m (£356m) of African credits by 2030 at the Africa Climate Summit in September.
The Ruwais refinery and petrochemical complex in Al Ruwais, United Arab Emirates. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images
The United Arab Emirates has the third biggest plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, analysis revealed this year. Its plans are surpassed only by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Blue Carbon has signed a deal with First Abu Dhabi Bank, the UAE’s largest, to finance the forest carbon project investments in September. The UN Development Programme confirmed it is in contact with the firm about how to develop the schemes.
Blue Carbon said it was committed to stringent rules about suitable methodologies for the carbon projects and would follow whatever governments agreed at Cop28. It said its team had previous experience developing carbon projects.
• Additional reporting by Angela Giuffrida and Pjotr Sauer
Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X, formerly known as Twitter, for all the latest news and features.
Misitu ni ya kwetu, anaigawa kwa Waarabu, halafu waarabu wanalipwa pesa na shirika la mazingira la Dunia kwa sababu misitu inasaidia kupunguza hela ukaa. Huu kama siyo uharamia ni nini? Maana hiyo pesa ilistahili kuingia kwenye mapato ya Taifa letu.
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Cha mjinga huliwa na mwenye akili
Halafu eti tuna usalama wa Taifa. Usalama wa Taifa gani unaweza kukubali 10% ya nchi iwe chini ya umiliki wa mgeni mmoja?
Useless na Hopeless Intelligence Community.
Halafu eti tuna usalama wa Taifa. Usalama wa Taifa gani unaweza kukubali 10% ya nchi iwe chini ya umiliki wa mgeni mmoja?
Useless na Hopeless Intelligence Community.
Ngoja tuone ataziuza mbuga ngapi nyingine kwa hawa waarabu kwa miaka mingapi?
Hizi dili huwa wanasaini kwa siri kila akienda huko Dubai.
Bandari tayari tumewakabidhi DP world. Loliondo Tayari Dubai tumewapa Dubai kwa kuwafukuza Wamasai.
Kwenye mbuga aslimia nane SSH sasa hivi amekabidhi kwa kampuni ya Blue Carbon ya Dubai.
Zimebaki 92% kabla ya muda wake kuisha nahisi atakabidhi hizo asilimia 92% zilizobaki kwa Waarabu kabla hatadhibitiwa huyu Mwanamke.
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Ndiyo huo mkataba wa kutunziwa misitu yetu na waarabu au?
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Hapo sasa !!
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