The Guardian (UK)- UAE owns 8% of Tanzania’s forest

[Nsanzagee]

Bado kuna wajinga wanatembea na kadi za chama cha kijani mfukoni huku baadhi wakikwambia hatuoni mbadala wa hicho chama na wakati huo huo kutwa yanalilia na huduma mbovu za afya, maji, umeme, n.k.

Inauma sana mkuu!

 

[Elli]

Wampe kila kitu. Maana akili hatuna

Du

 

[mzeewaSHY]

Nilisha sema waisiharamu wasipewe uongozi kwa kuwa hawana akili yoyote kichwani ni wapumbavu haswa ...watu wakanionq mjinga

Ubaguzi !

 

[mzeewaSHY]

Watu wa Maganzo

Karibu na Idukilo 😅🙏🙏

 

[Kalamu]

Lakini hapo nimeona zipo Nchi nyingine pia zimeingia hiyo mikataba sio Tanzania pekee !!
Lazima kutakuwepo na manufaa makubwa 🙏🙏

Hii pekee ndiyo iwe sababu, ya kuziona nchi nyingine?
Nchi zenyewe kweli ni za kuchukulia kama mifano ya kuigwa? Mbona ni Afrika, huko kwingine hakuna mapori ya kuuza?

 

[Kimbukiko]

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....

Ndipo hapo utajua kweli hii nchi inaongozwa na wapumbavu , hao waarabu watavuna maokoto marefu kwenye carbon subsidies zitakazo anza kutolewa na UN miaka michache ijayo kutokana na UN sustainable environmental agendas + decarbonisation , sisi ni wapumbav , tuna Hekari nyingi za miti ila tunauza kwa hao waarabu , why ?
Why tusiwe sisi wamiliki wa hiyo misitu ili tuvune hizo subsidies za UN ?
Akili za wana ccm ni mavi ya mbwa koko

 

[Lwiva]

Ubaguzi !

Ubaguzi siyo kosa kosa ni ubaguzi usio wa haki .......kupanga ni kuchagua na kuchagua ni kubagua ...kamwe uwezi kuchagua pasipo kubagua ...hivyo kuna aina mbili za kubagua
1) kubagua kwa haki
2) kubagua kusiko kwa haki
Mtu mwenye akili kubwa awezi kupinga kubagua ila anacho pinga ni ubaguzi usio wa haki ...fanya ubaguzi ulio wa haki ...hata kwenye kuoa kuna ubaguzi ...popote palipo na neno kuchagua basi kuna kubagua ...tumia akili acha kutumia kijambia kufikiri kama sa mia moja mbovu.

 

[Ituzaingo Argentina]

Samia yupo na mission ya kuuza TANGANYIKA kwa waarabu


Kina makonda wameletwa kupiga kelele tusahau samia anavyouza nchi kwa waarabu

Acha ubaguzi, una ushahidi gani anauza nchi! Ukiitwa mahakamani utajibu nini!! Muwe mnaweka akiba ya maneno

 

[Kimbukiko]

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....

Hao waarabu hawana shida ,sisi viongozi wetu ndio wapumbav na vichaa wasio na maono .
Kwa agenda za UN , World economic forum NK Carbon taxation itaanza soon , that means kila bidhaa au huduma inayonunua itatozwa kodi ya ukaa /carbon tax , na hii ndio itakayotumika kama subsidies Kwa kuwapa hao wamiliki wa estates za misitu .
Utajiri mkubwa upo kwenye misitu , tuhamasishane kumiliki mashamba na kupanda miti kupata misitu mikubwa na kuanza kuvuna hayo mapato

 

[mzeewaSHY]

Acha tuuzwe tu coz hatuna akili; so tuuzwe hadi mikundu mpk ambapo hasira zikitushika na kuwaondoa hawa watu kwa nguvu na mabavu

Duh 🙄 !

 

[much know]

hakuna, kuna siku walileta picha hapa JF mwarabu wa dubai yuko njombe eti anakagua kujenga hoteli ya nyota 5 njombe kumbe alienda kugagua nchi yake huko aliiopewa misitu ya njombe, kumbuka zanzibar ukubwa wake kwa kilometa za mraba ni kama dar tu hivyo hakuna cha kugawa …

Kwaiyo ni kosa kujenga hotel ya nyota Tano njombe?

 

[Lwiva]

Hao waarabu hawana shida ,sisi viongozi wetu ndio wapumbav na vichaa wasio na maono .
Kwa agenda za UN , World economic forum NK Carbon taxation itaanza soon , that means kila bidhaa au huduma inayonunua itatozwa kodi ya ukaa /carbon tax , na hii ndio itakayotumika kama subsidies Kwa kuwapa hao wamiliki wa estates za misitu .
Utajiri mkubwa upo kwenye misitu , tuhamasishane kumiliki mashamba na kupanda miti kupata misitu mikubwa na kuanza kuvuna hayo mapato

Misitu imilikiwe na serikali kamwe watu binafsi wasipewe kumiliki misitu ni upumbavu kama ccm tu

 

[Kimbukiko]

Huu upumbavu , kwamba sisi watanzania tumeshindwa kununua ardhi n upanda miti na kumiliki ardhi humu sisi wenyewe mpaka tumuuzie mwarabu ?
Utaahira wa wapi huu ?

 

[1000 digits]

Kwa ufupi mama kizimkazi ni bora hata akina chifu mangungo wa msovero....atuauza Tanganyika yote kwa waarabu asipozuiwa...

Yule kimtizamo anapenda maendeleo yapatikane uarabuni kuliko huku bara kwa Watu weusi wenye vichogo.
Kifupi hajawahi kuwa na mapenzi mema na watu Wa bara na Tanganyika Yao.
Wale Wanaipenda Tanganyika kama nchi lakini sio Watanganyika. Huku wanaotajirika sana na wanapora wanavyotaka hakuna Wa kuwauliza mana Watanganyika nao wamejawa na tamaa.

2025 panahitajika ushindani Wa wazi na midahalo ya wazi Ili Hawa watu watuambie Wana maono Gani na Taifa hili.
Sio kuendelea kushabikia Wanasiasa wanaokuja tu ghafla na malengo Yao Kisa tu tunataka kulinda Chama.
Chama ni Neno tu au Jina tu ambalo halipati Hasara Wala maumivu yoyote hata nchi ikirudishwa utumwani Jina CCM haliwezi kuteseka mana ni Jina tu Wala haliugui Wala kuhitaji kitu chochote. Kukumbata Jina CCM na kuiangamiza nchi nijambo la ajabu sana.

Watu Wa kuiokoa nchi hii wapo ndani ya CCM na wakuiangamiiza nchi hii wapo ndani ya CCM pia.
Kinachohitajika ni Uzalendo na kusimama kupigania maslahi ya nchi na Sio maslahi Binafsi Kama ilivyo Sasa ambapo Wazalendo wanaitwa watu wenye roho Mbaya wasiotaka watanzania watajirika ( kauli ya Mh. Doto Biteko Naibu waziri mkuu) . Kwa maana nyingine ni kusema kuwa Watanzania wamejawa na roho Mbaya Kwa sababu wanawachukia Mafisadi "

 

[Mjamaa1]

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​

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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
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Hongera sana kwa uongozi wetu wa sisiemu, hakika wanaupiga mwingi

 

[Kimbukiko]

Duh! Huyu Mama ni laana. Na kuna siku huyu atakuwa ndiye Rais atakayechukiwa kuliko mwingine yeyote.

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.

Na ndio ushangae sasa

 

[Kimbukiko]

Kinachokuja nchi hii ni zaidi ya ukoloni .
We subiri uone , wananchi tutaishi kama watumwa na vijakazi na crooks wachache wataishi kama makabaila na wafalme
Mtu mweusi ni ngedere hakyanani

 

[Kalamu]

Inabidi tu kujiuliza maswali mambo makubwa na mazito kama haya yanapotokea kimya kimya tu ndani ya nchi:

Hivi haya maswala huwa yanajadiliwa na kuamriwa kwenye Baraza la Mawaziri?
Inakuwaje hata fununu tu ziwafikie vyombo vya habari na angalau kugusia tu uwepo wa mambo kama haya?

Hivi haya nayo yamo kwenye ILANI ya Chama, kuyatekeleza?

CCM kama chama, wanazo habari zozote za uwepo wa maswala ya namna hii na kuyabariki?

Kuna hiyo inayoitwa "Usalama wa Taifa", wanajua chochote kinacho endelea hapa?

Ni wataalam wetu gani walio na ufahamu mzuri wa maswala haya waliohusika kutoa ushauri, wale wale wa DP World na IGA yake?

 

[Kadhi Mkuu 1]

Hakuna haja ya kuamka, mjinga hata akiamka hana cha kufanya.

Ndio maana huyu bibi wa kizanzibari kila wiki anaenda uarabuni. Watanganyika tuamke usingizini

 

[mzeewaSHY]

Ubaguzi siyo kosa kosa ni ubaguzi usio wa haki .......kupanga ni kuchagua na kuchagua ni kubagua ...kamwe uwezi kuchagua pasipo kubagua ...hivyo kuna aina mbili za kubagua
1) kubagua kwa haki
2) kubagua kusiko kwa haki
Mtu mwenye akili kubwa awezi kupinga kubagua ila anacho pinga ni ubaguzi usio wa haki ...fanya ubaguzi ulio wa haki ...hata kwenye kuoa kuna ubaguzi ...popote palipo na neno kuchagua basi kuna kubagua ...tumia akili acha kutumia kijambia kufikiri kama sa mia moja mbovu.

Makasiriko !!