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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Ministry of Water and Environment climate change Commissioner Margaret Athieno Mwebesa has urged Ugandans to plant trees to mitigate climate change in the country.<\/p>\n

“Yes, some were God-given but we have gone a long way and cut many of them and they need to be replaced,” Ms Mwebesa said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Monitor<\/b>, Ms Mwebesa said that human activities such as deforestation, wetland degradation, release of greenhouse gases like carbon from industries have greatly contributed to climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch activities must be stopped if the country is to mitigate climate change,\u201d she remarked on October 20.<\/p>\n

Uganda\u2019s resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ms Elsie Attafuah urged government to invest in climate-mitigation initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cImperatively, Uganda needs more robust climate-financing facilities, underpinned by government-to-government, cross-regional collaboration and private sector participation in carbon markets,\u201d Ms Attafuah highlighted on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Senior climate change mitigation officer at the Ministry of Water and Environment Ms Irene Chekwoti said trees will play a major role for the country\u2019s target to reduce its net emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must increase our forest cover from 12.4percent in 2020 to 21perecent by 2030. Our wetland coverage must also increase from 8.9percent in 2020 to 12percent by 2030,\u201d she emphasized.<\/p>\n

Ms Chekwoti added: Trees will not only help to mitigate climate but also enable farmers to earn as the country participates in carbon markets to reduce carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uganda has initiated actions to build its regulatory, institutional and technical capacities to participate in voluntary carbon markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment has already outlined its updated National Determined Contributions (NDCs) to raise its ambitions for emission reduction, Ms Chekwoti said in Kampala.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Uganda signed the Paris agreement to address the sustainable development goals, tackle climate change and its negative impacts during the UN climate change Conference (COP21) in Paris.<\/p>\n

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