Tanzania says six carbon market projects have reached the credit generation stage, with four clean cooking and social benefit projects approved by the national carbon project evaluation committee. The announcement came at the 2026 Africa Carbon Markets Summit, where government officials and investors discussed how to expand carbon finance across the continent. The country is backing this push with institutional changes. The 2025 amendments to the Environmental Management Act created the National Carbon Monitoring Centre, which registers projects, oversees measurement and verification, and is meant to prevent double counting. That governance layer matters for buyer confidence, since credits only hold value if the underlying reductions are real and independently checked. The bigger test is delivery. The article names no specific projects, credit volumes, or verification timelines. For Tanzania to attract serious investment, it will need to show which methodologies are being used, how community benefits are measured, and how the monitoring centre plans to enforce quality standards.
