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Uganda's National Climate Change (Climate Change Mechanisms) Regulations 2025
Uganda's National Climate Change (Climate Change Mechanisms) Regulations, 2025 have opened the door to carbon markets in the country. But are carbon credits a real solution to the climate crisis? This factsheet by the Centre for Citizens Conserving Environment and Management (CECIC) critically examines the new Regulations, unpacks what they mean for Uganda's forests, communities and climate future, and makes the case that carbon credits are false solutions that allow the world's biggest polluters to avoid cutting their own emissions.
Carbon markets operate on a flawed premise that allows corporations to keep polluting as long as they pay someone else to offset their emissions. For Uganda, a country that contributes less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions yet bears the heaviest burden of climate impacts including droughts, floods and food insecurity, this arrangement is deeply unjust. CECIC's experience working with communities across Uganda shows that carbon projects frequently threaten community land rights, restrict access to forests and deliver little meaningful benefit to the people who need it most.
Uganda deserves climate solutions rooted in justice and community leadership, not carbon markets that serve foreign investors. Download this factsheet to understand what is at stake and what genuine climate action looks like.
