Big Win for EACOP as CPA-EU Backs Uganda, Tanzania to Explore Oil & Gas
Uganda and Tanzania are now able to move on with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project because to a change made by the Caribbean, Pacific, and European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (CPA-EU) in one of its climate change resolutions.
Big Win for EACOP as CPA-EU Backs Uganda, Tanzania to Explore Oil & Gas
Uganda and Tanzania are now able to move on with the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project because to a change made by the Caribbean, Pacific, and European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (CPA-EU) in one of its climate change resolutions.
Rt Hon Thomas Tayebwa, the deputy speaker of Uganda’s parliament, tweeted on Wednesday, “Big triumph for EACOP as the African, Caribbean, Pacific-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Maputo adopts an amendment that allows us to explore our oil and gas industry.”
We agreed to do this responsibly and sustainably, but we also committed to investing more in renewable energy sources, he continued.
Hon Tayebwa referred to it as “a huge win.”
He thanked Hon. Edmund Hinkson of Barbados and Hon. Musa Azzan Zungu, Deputy Speaker of Tanzania, who sponsored the resolution on behalf of Uganda and Tanzania.
“I want to thank Team Uganda for lighting the midnight candle lobbying, Gladys Boss Shollei CBS MP for the support, and the European Parliament for understanding and listening to us,” he continued.
The “Operative Clause 5” of the CPA-EU Assembly’s Resolution on the Global Challenges of Climate Change Cooperation for Adaptation and Migration was modified on Wednesday. The CPA-EU Assembly is an assembly made up of an equal number of elected members from the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states and Members of the European Parliament.
At a meeting this week in Maputo, Mozambique, members of parliament voted to alter the resolution to allow for a worldwide “just transition” to renewable energy and “acknowledge the importance of fair phase out and gradual transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, stressing that the achieving the 1.5 °C target requires the drastic scaling up of renewable energy and supporting a global just transition.”
In a recent resolution, the European Union Parliament asked for the suspension of the pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania due to “violations of human rights in Uganda and Tanzania linked to investments in fossil fuels projects.”
Changing weather
Hon. Tayebwa stated on Tuesday that their discussion on climate change issues with EU MPs was productive.
We have also officially expressed our dissatisfaction with their most recent unilateral decision over the EACOP. If developing nations like Uganda, which suffer from energy poverty, are to be able to finance renewable energy projects, they must be helped to develop their oil and gas resources. This can be done responsibly, he said, citing the oil projects in Uganda that are expected to emit 80 kg of CO2 per barrel.
Other international oil projects, according to him, emit 80 kg of CO2 on average per barrel.
“Since developed nations are the main pollutants, they should quicken their energy transition. They must fulfill their promise to spend $100 billion on mitigating problems. Time to put words into action!
H.E. Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, President of Mozambique, launched the 42nd session of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Maputo at the beginning of the week.
