Climate Action Network - International CAN is the global network of over 1,300 environmental non-governmental organisations in over 130 countries working to promote government in addition to individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
CAN has formal regional and national networks called nodes which coordinate these efforts.
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Climate Action Network Tanzania is an environmental non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2011, with its headquarters in Planning Commission. It also works with the parliamentary standing committees and research institutions, in furtherance of implementing a Low Carbon Growth and the adaption to current climate modify impacts.
Together with its stakeholders, Climate Action Network Tanzania works towards climate sustainability and poverty reduction through enhanced community livelihood activities and a climate-resilient economy. Promoting renewable energy, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation programmes and the sustainable usage of water resources, this is the fostering a low carbon development. Moreover, its aim is to develop a networking sorting in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular create figure or combination. to inform and empower the Tanzanian community, providing a platform for public dialogues, with the purpose of giving Tanzania a national voice in the international climate change debate and raise awareness to enforce a climate-resilient behaviour. Climate Action Network Tanzania targets the carrying out of powerful national policies, strategies and actions concerning climate change impacts. Furthermore, their mission is bringing the international climate agenda into the local context of Tanzania to embrace Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement. In the interest of an accurate operation and socio-economic development Climate Action Network Tanzania undertakes scientific research on climate change and environment development in several areas throughout Tanzania.
Its areas of form are:
Climate Action Network Tanzania organises workshops and seminars among stakeholders from government institutions and ministries, private sector, development partners and civil society to discuss the current and future climate change and environmental related effects on community wellbeing and economic growth. It also has several projects, including
Climate Action Network Tanzania is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation. It finances itself through sponsoring, donations and financial backing from foundations. Its fundraising is based on their ethical fundraising strategy, which includes that they neither take money from foundations whose ethics do non align with theirs, nor accept money bound to conditions which would modify their work or representation.