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Link investment to environmental sustainability
2006-11-07 09:55:53
By Editor
When addressing a workshop on Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) on Best Environment Strengthening for Tanzania (BEST), Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa underscored the module in approving investment while at the same time enhanceingsustainability in environment and resource exploitation.
In essence what this means is that investment ventures ought to be directly linked with environmental sustainability.
Last week, a UN report painted a bleak future warning of heightened global warming, a phenomenon attributed to industrialisation and environment destruction.
The saddest part is that billions of the world\’s poorest people are the ones directly at risk from global warming.
But even as the UN and Western powers explore ways to fight climate change and help Africa, it is important that African governments take the lead.
It is worth noting that climate change is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats that humanity may ever face.
Climate change threatens development goals for billions of the world\’s poorest people, our country inclusive.
We face a genuine danger that recent gains in poverty reduction will be thrown into reverse in the coming decades, particularly for the poor people if investment and sustainability are not interlocked.
Tanzanian government and other stakeholders ought to take concrete actions on immediate priorities ensure that even as much as investment is essential in economic growth, sustainability is guaranteed.
Our nation, just like any on the continent, is more vulnerable than feared to climate change, widely blamed on a build-up of gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.
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