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The National Forestry Authority (NFA) and the Ministry of water and Environment calls on members of parliament to advocate for the climate change fund. This comes as environmentalists and youth were discussing promotion of tree planting with members of parliament at parliament. The head of climate change in the ministry of water and Environment Chebet Maikut says that creating the climate change fund will add more resources to climate financing from government and development partners. Chebet also said that parliament should consider reducing the cost of electricity and biogas to reduce pressure on the forests for charcoal burning.

The Director corporate Affairs at the National Forestry Authority Paul Buyerah Musamali asked members of parliament and other people with some income to stop using charcoal to deny charcoal dealers market and think about the alternative methods of cooking.

The member of parliament for Gulu municipality says that other areas should develop a culture of Baganda  where by  some species  of trees and animals are taken as totems and guarded jealously which is one way of protecting the environment from degradation. The woman member of parliament for Masaka district Babirye Kabanda says that  its time for the country to blacklist the persons who are highly involved in the degradation of environment through cutting trees for charcoal  burning as an action to stop unnecessary cut of trees.

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Environmental NGOs have launched the report showing the progress of the implementation of the national adaptation programmes of action (NAPA) towards climate change mitigation and adaptation, calling for more and serious work to be done by government for the targets to be realized, in a bid for Uganda to cope up with climate change effects.

While releasing the report the lead researcher for the NAPA, Dr. Justine Jjumba says that the focus  should be on tree planting, water source management and restoration, land degradation management, water for production, drought adaptation, community water and sanitation, strengthening meteorological services, climate change and development planning among others, and should be implemented by the relevant government agencies and departments as well as the NGOs to address issues of adverse climate change that the experts say have for long been neglected. The report continues to highlight areas in the country that are greatly affected by climate change effects and among them include the Karamoja, Teso, elgon, Rwenzori and cattle corridor regions. The report further notes that if Uganda can fully implement the finding key points then climate change issues will be addressed.

However launching the report, the chairman NAPA, Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa advised the relevant agencies of government and NGOs to help move down the messages developed in the NAPA to the grass root since the masses there are directly affected and are the same people who manage the natural resources the NAPA is trying to protect.

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