The NEMPSI seek to address environmental degradation and guide strategic interventions over 10 years, aligned to national and international frameworks like the Tanzania Development Vision 2025 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The overall objective of the NEMPSI is to guide strategic and coordinated environmental interventions at all levels based on spatial variation of environmental challenges and intervention options.
It identifies Tanzania’s major environmental challenges to include land degradation, deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, deterioration of water sources, coastal and marine degradation, waste management, environmental pollution, biotechnology and invasive species. Interventions for addressing climate change impacts are provided to meet the goal of reducing climate vulnerability and enhancing resilience to climate change impacts. They are intended to enhance climate resilience of people, ecosystems and productive sectors by reducing adverse impacts of climate change and building capacity for harnessing climate change mitigation opportunities.
