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In 2025, the
Vice President’s Office (VPO) of the United Republic of Tanzania, in
collaboration with national and international partners, successfully convened a
full-day technical workshop in Dodoma to strengthen Tanzania’s readiness and
strategic positioning to use Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
The workshop,
held on 3rd December 2025 in the national capital city, was a part
of the project titled “Implementation of the Development and Application of
the Integrated Assessment for Article 6 (IAA6) in Tanzania”. The project is
generously supported by the European Union and implemented by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC), in collaboration with
Perspectives Climate Research (PCR), Climate Analytics (CA) and Climate Action
Network Tanzania (CAN-Tanzania) as the national partner.
The IAA6
approach is a comprehensive and systemic framework designed to guide
governments in engaging with Article 6 in a credible, ambitious, and
well-coordinated manner. It provides countries with practical tools, structured
guidance, and strategic insights to strengthen implementation, improve
transparency, foster stakeholder engagement, and align cooperative approaches
with national climate priorities. Unlike conventional technical guides, the
IAA6 approach takes a holistic view linking climate policies, sustainable
development, governance systems, and cooperative mechanisms to support
transformational change.
Giving opening
remarks, the Former Deputy Permanent Secretary (Environment), Prof. Peter
Msoffe emphasized that Tanzania is firmly committed to ensuring that its
engagement in cooperative carbon market mechanisms yields real, measurable, and
transparent climate outcomes that directly contribute to national priorities
outlined in the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and
advancing the Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience Pillar of the
Tanzania Development Vision 2050. He highlighted that effective participation
in high-integrity carbon markets is essential to unlock climate finance,
strengthen institutional readiness, and enhance national resilience. During his
opening remarks, Mr Denis Machnik from UNEP-CCC highlighted
that Tanzania needs a science-based strategy to leverage Article 6 carbon
markets effectively to meet its climate goals.
During the
workshop, stakeholders from strategic ministries were introduced to the IAA6
approach and its potential application within Tanzania’s policy landscape by
Ms. Alicia Schmid, representing Perspectives Climate Research. Participants
were engaged in interactive discussions on how the framework can be
contextualized to reflect Tanzania’s development goals, institutional
arrangements, and existing climate commitments.
The session
also introduced the SiSePuede model as a novel modeling tool for
projecting sectoral greenhouse gas emissions. Giving her presentation, Ms.
Marie-Charlotte Geffray, an expert from Climate Analytics, emphasized that the
model will support Tanzania in assessing mitigation scenarios and supporting
decision-making for Article 6 implementation.
Conducting the
end of the workshop reflection session, Mr. Boniventure Mchomvu from Climate
Action Network Tanzania urged the participants to critically reflect on how
they, and the ministries and institutions they represent, can meaningfully
engage with Article 6 processes. He emphasized that effective participation
requires strategic preparedness, inter-sectoral collaboration, and a clear
understanding of Tanzania’s priorities in advancing cooperative approaches
under the Paris Agreement
During the
closing remarks, Dr. Fredrick Manyika from the Vice President’s Office
acknowledged that the workshop marked an important step toward reinforcing
national capacity, strengthening coordination among institutions, and ensuring
that Tanzania leverages Article 6 opportunities in ways that support
sustainable development and long-term climate ambition. He acknowledged the
support from UNEP-CCC and the consortium implementing the
project and assured them of the Vice President’s Office’s full commitment to
continued collaboration, guidance, and institutional support as the initiative
progresses.
For more information, please contact:
Vice President’s Office
Head of Communication Unit
ps@vpo.go.tz Or Climate Action Network (CAN) Tanzania
contact@cantz.or.tz cc: loveness@cantz.or.tz
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