CLIMATE CHANGE IN TANZANIA

Paris Climate change agreement with Getrude Clement

Getrude Clement from Tanzania is a youth representative and UNICEF Climate advocate representing the voices, hope and concerns of youth people all over the world on Paris climate change agreement that held in New York 22-April, 2016

TEN GREAT EVENTS EARTH'S DAY 2016, 22 APRIL

Earth Day was bigger and bolder than ever before. It’s the largest secular event in the world. That’s the power of a contagious people’s movement that returns each year. This year World leaders united in New York City to sign the Paris Agreement- a landmark achievement in the fight against climate change. They deserve to be congratulated, but they didn’t reach this point without continuous pressure and support from civil society.

Earth Day is people standing up for an environmental problem they are passionate about. It’s creating learning experiences in schools so that our next generation will be environmentally informed global citizens. It’s recognizing an opportunity for your community to become more sustainable. Small green acts add up. Mobilizing people creates change. Earth Day is being engaged, being responsible, and being part of a movement.

Let’s recognize 10 stand out events that are happening around the World to mark Earth Day. May they resonate and motivate you to act as well:

1. Setting the bar high for cities; Mayor Tomás Pedro Regalado is helping make Miami green. His Earth Day proclamation sets Miami apart as an American city that is taking climate change seriously. Mayor Regalado announced that Miami will be going 100% renewable energy by 2050. As one of the hottest cities on the map, we hope their action will inspire others to follow suit.

2. A clean sweep in Europe; The “Let’s Do It” campaign is making headway in cleaning up the world. The movement started in Estonia and has engaged 13.8 million people over the past 7 years. In celebration of Earth Day 2016 Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Ukraine, and Lithuania will hold massive cleanups across Eastern Europe. 4-10% of their populations are anticipated to help pick up trash after mapping it first.

3. Students for a greener China; China is the world’s top carbon emitter. University students there have taken note and are stepping into environmentalist shoes. Universities in Beijing are spreading awareness about recycling and helping plant trees. Students will now receive seeds in return for their recyclables.

4. One islander, one tree; Down in the Caribbean, St. Kitts and Nevis are making a bold move and are committing to plant a tree for each of its citizens this Earth Day. A nation of 55,000 people, they are taking Earth Day Network’s Trees for the Earth goal head on and will plant 55,000 trees over the next five years.

5. India pedals towards a greener Earth; Cyclists in India are kicking off an environmental awareness rally in Bangaluru, Kranataka. A parade will have over 20,000 environmentalist cyclists. In addition to their cycling awareness campaign, they will be contributing to the trees for Earth campaign by planting 60,000 tree saplings in public spaces at all of the district headquarters.

6. Morocco is [royally] committed to fighting climate change; The hosts of COP22 in Fall 2016, they are demonstrating their sincere commitment to a sustainable future by sending Princess Lalla Hasnaa to sign the Paris Agreement. Following a successful COP21 in Paris, this is a positive indication that Morocco will pick up where France left off.

7. Vietnam gets in rhythm with Earth Day; A flash mob dance performance grabs attention. In Ho Chi Minh City a creatively choreographed flash mob had 1,000 dancers. Young students and hearing-impaired members of the local Deaf Community Organization (source: http://bit.ly/1VxuOHd) were among the dedicated participants. The theme of their Earth Day celebration was water conservation.

8. Honduras Remembers Berta Cáceres; In Puerto Cortes, Honduras, dozens of people are expected to participate in a tree planting and educational event on Earth Day this year in the memory of the Lenca activist Berta Cáceres. Coral Tree seedlings will be given out and those organizing the event will describe who Berta was, as well as the important role trees play in the hydrological cycle in Honduras.

Berta Cáceres was an indigenous Goldman Environmental Prize-winning environment and land defender who was assassinated last March. She co-founded an indigenous people’s campaign against the Agua Zarca dam. Earth Day is the perfect day to remember and be inspired by the memory of someone such as her. ¡Viva Berta!

9. Kiribati builds its resilience;Islands feel the devastating effects of climate change first. As Kiribati falls victim to climate change, we are reminded that one of the most urgent issues of our day is access to fresh water. Kiribati islanders are working as hard as possible to protect their home. They have responded to the #Trees4Earth call for action campaign by planting trees that will benefit their native ecosystems. Mangroves are essential for Kiribati as they can thrive in salinized water, boost fish populations, and ultimately help stabilize the coastline and prevent further erosion from rising Pacific seas.

10. North American fans of the sci-fi classic Independence Day – 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is offering a special 99 cent Digital HD purchase of the film via Google Play today through Monday, with all of Fox’s net proceeds benefiting Earth Day Network and our Trees for the Earth initiative!

Let us know what made your #EarthDay2016 so special.

RESTORATION OF NATURE

Environmental restoration involves many different approaches and technologies depending on the requirements of the situation. It can involve heavy equipment like cranes, graders, bulldozers, or excavators, and also hand processes like the planting of trees and other vegetation. It can involve high-tech processes such as those applied in the careful environmental control required in fish-hatchery procedures. Today, computerized regulation is often being utilized in these processes. Computer-based mapping has also become an important dimension of restorative work, as has computer modeling.

In some situations, environmental restorative work is handled entirely by professionals working with skilled operators and technicians. In others, ordinary local community members may do much of the work, acquiring skills as the project proceeds.

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us:  "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."  ~U Thant, speech, 1970

Bare land need more attention

footprint at Iringa as a sign of care planet earth

One among the samples of activities doing best for restoring nature

Environmental research team in Iringa

UN invites world’s seven billion people to become agents of change on World Environment Day

Sugar cane and soybean plantations have replaced hectare after hectare of jungle as the Amazon has been exploited in the name of agriculture, with little regard for the environmental impacts. Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Riccardo Pravettoni

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5 June 2015 – With many of the earth’s ecosystems nearing “critical tipping points,” the United Nations invited each of the seven billion people on the planet to mark this year’sWorld Environment Day by making one change towards a more responsible consumption of resources – “be it refusing to buy single-use plastic bags or riding a bike to work.”

“Humanity continues to consume far more natural resources than the planet can sustainably provide,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in this year’s message for the Day, observed annually on 5 June. “It is time for us to change.”

“The goal of sustainable development is to increase the quality of life for all people without increasing environmental degradation and without compromising the resource needs of future generations,” he noted. “We can do this by shifting our consumption patterns towards goods that use less energy, water and other resources and by wasting less food.”

World Environment Day is the opportunity for everyone to realize the responsibility to care for the Earth and to become agents of change.

The theme of this year’s Day – “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care,” – emphasizes the personal responsibility each person bears for enabling inclusive and sustainable economic development while stabilizing and reducing the rate of resource use.

Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), invited “everyone to imagine what the world would be like if each of the seven billion people made one change towards a more responsible consumption of resources.”

“I would like you to hold on to that vision and strive to make it reality – be it refusing to buy single-use plastic bags or riding a bike to work,” Mr. Steiner said in his message.

Noting “it is easy to underestimate the power of individual action,” Mr. Steiner said “our daily decisions as consumers, multiplied by billions, have a colossal impact on the environment – some of them contribute to the further depletion of natural resources, others help to protect fragile ecosystems.”

“We must ask ourselves what the consequences of this pace of consumption and trajectory of population growth – forecasted to reach nine billion by 2050 – will be,” he said.

“Under current trends, global extraction of resources is set to reach 140 billion tonnes by 2050, compared to around 7 billion tonnes in 1900,” said Mr. Steiner. “This will probably exceed the availability and accessibility of resources, as well as the carrying capacity of the planet to absorb the impacts of their extraction and use.”

World Environment Day “is the opportunity for everyone to realize the responsibility to care for the Earth and to become agents of change,” Mr. Steiner said.

Italy is the host of this year's celebrations of the Day which are taking place at Expo Milano 2015, which runs from 1 May to 31 October and is expected to include over 140 countries plus a significant number of international organizations.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Challenges and Opportunites

In Tanzania, access to clean, safe water and sanitation in schools and health facilities is declining. Hygiene practices are inadequate and there is insufficient coordination, emergency preparedness and response capacity in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. These dynamics are slowing down the country’s development and lead to the spread of disease, increase the workload of poor women and children and lead to the loss of life, rights, dignity and economic gains.

Though Tanzania started implementing the largest water SWAP (Sector Wise Approach to Programming) in sub-Saharan Africa in 2006, funding for water supply has not kept pace with population growth. Moreover, very limited financial resources have been allocated to sanitation and hygiene under the water SWAP and within the health sector.

WASH in Tanzanian schools had been neglected by officials in the water, health, and education sectors. Latrine construction in schools had not kept pace with the increase in enrollment which followed the abolition of primary education fees in 2002. This has resulted in some schools having more than 200 pupils per drop-hole. Moreover, less than 10% of schools have functioning hand washing facilities. Lack of adequate latrines for school children with disabilities is also a critical challenge.

The Zanzibar Water Authority (ZAWA) depends heavily on the treasury to subsidize its supplies which undermines the Authority’s sustainability. At the same time, coordination across the ministries and agencies working on the sector has been poor, especially in emergency WASH preparedness and response. Other areas of concern are ZAWA’s weak financial management systems, high levels of non-revenue water, weak environmental health impact-assessment skills and weak water resource monitoring capacities.

Nationally, the WASH sector has weak monitoring and evaluation systems, with limited evidence based data collection and poor analysis and documentation, all important for improved sector advocacy. Capacity to evaluate equity issues also requires attention as well as capacity building for advocacy among the main WASH sector civil society organization networks.

United Nations in Action

UN is taking an upstream approach, targeting technical assistance and capacity development to improve national WASH implementation and coordination mechanisms and the application of best practices.

Priority areas include WASH in schools; sanitation, hygiene and household water treatment and safe storage; emergency WASH; and proper management of national water resources. UN has the strongest comparative advantage in all of these areas.

UN’s activities include supporting ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to: sustain effective school WASH, national coordination and scale up mechanisms; build the capacity and skills of MDAs to roll out capacity building for harmonised sanitation, hygiene and household water treatment scale up; strengthen  the Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control Organisation, a leading Tanzanian NGO in sanitation technical capacity development; and provide technical assistance for improving monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and analytical capacity for WASH. The UN is also providing assistance and financial aid for the development of a national sanitation and hygiene strategy. Agencies will also build the capacity of the WASH sector for emergency preparedness and response.

In Zanzibar, special attention is paid to building a wider consensus in Government in support of developing a sanitation and hygiene policy. A relatively large proportion of the WASH budget is allocated to strengthening the Zanzibar Water Authority and improving the efficiency of water supply.

Issues of equity, sustainability, pollution and the effect of climate change on water supply are addressed through technical assistance to ministries and government agencies. Officials are encouraged to incorporate water resource management into sector plans, environmental health strategies and environmental impact assessments.

SHERIA YA USIMAMIZI YA MAZINGIRA(EMA-2004)

SHERIA YA USIMAMIZI YA MAZINGIRA(EMA-2004)

Mchango wangu wa kwanza kwa kifupi ningependa nikujuze kuhusu sheria ya mazingira ya Tanzania.watanznaia wengi wetu hatupendi kujua au kusoma sheria mbalimbali zinazohusu maisha yetu ya kila siku.kama sheria nyingine zilivyo,sheria hii imeandikwa kwa kiingereza na kutafisiriwa kwa kiswahili. Sheria hii ilitungwa mwaka 2004 na kuanza kazi mwezi julai 2005.

Sheria hii inatoa mamlaka mbalimbali kuanzia kwa waziri,Mkurugenzi wa
mazingira,baraza la hifadhi na usimamiz wa mazingira(NEMC),wizara zakisekta,mamlaka za serilkali za mitaa,maafisa mazingira wa ,wilaya,miji,jiji n.k.Pia inaongelea uandaaji na usimamizi mipango wa mazingira yakiwemo;hifadhi na ulinzi,maeneo ya Mazingirwa lindwa.

Sheria hii inatoa muongozo wa shughuli zote zihusuzo mazingira na kwa sasa inatambulika kama sheria mama kwa mambo yote yahusuyo mazingira na ni itatumika kwa mambo yote ya mazingira iwapo sheria nyingine itakinzana nayo.(sura232)

Nakala za sheria hii zinapatikana kwenye duka la serikaili.Tafadhali jipatie nakala yako kwa uelewa ili tuweze kutunza mazingira yetu Tanzania.