AllAfrica: Tanzania: VP Touts Natural Gas Use to Curb Climate Change

Availability of funds from the United Nations Green Climate Funds will help the country finance adaptation projects, including connecting most households to natural gas as source of energy.

The Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, said rolling out natural gas use to households will help wean the society from fossil fuel such as firewood and charcoal dependence which contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

In a speech read on his behalf by the Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office responsible for Environment, Dr Bilnith Mahenge, during the opening of a two-day national conference on climate change, Dr Bilal said the government is taking action to combat climate change which is already affecting the country through temperature increases and rising of sea level.
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