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Men verses Women: Climate Change Deepening Gender Inequality in Amuru
Climate change effects are creating pressure on human livelihoods and more so on women and
children who are bearing the consequences to a higher degree than men.

Background: Over the years there has been asystematic changing weather conditions in the wider northern Uganda, which has culminated in an adverse climatic situation. These changes have come with crippling effects all over the north but more so in Amuru district particularly.

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Recently, government agencies led by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) have published media articles through which they have made a case for Uganda’s oil and gas exploitation efforts.

Amidst warnings from scientists that no new investments in oil, gas, and coal must take place if the world is to meet the goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, PAU and others have argued as follows:

Dear Mr. President,
CSO OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT: YOUR TELEGRAPH ARTICLE UNDERMINES THE CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT AND ENDANGERS UGANDANS
1. Your Excellency, on May 2, 2022, you published a newspaper article titled, “Africa can
help solve the energy crisis” in the UK’s Telegraph. In the article, you noted that being a friendly country, Uganda, which is seeking to commercialise its oil and gas finds through the Lake Albert oil project, can play a crucial role in helping the West to enjoy energy security.

We, the undersigned environmental and human rights civil society groups working to promote environmental conversation, human rights observance, and a just energy transition in Uganda, Africa, and our global allies, salute you.

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Today, Uganda’s president, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, is expected to officiate at a ceremony during which drilling for the Kingfisher oil project will be launched. Commercial oil production is expected to commence in Uganda in 2025. Today’s occasion is the initial drilling for the project and does not mark the beginning of oil production in Uganda.

Dear Mr. Venkatakrishnan,
We would like to draw your attention to the attempt of Barclays’ research department to whitewash one of the world’s most controversial oil projects: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). If built, the 1,443 km long pipeline will rip through critical wildlife habitats and protected areas in Uganda and Tanzania, open up Uganda’s oldest national park for oil exploitation and alongside its related Tilenga oil project, expropriate up to 100,000 people.

Fifteen (15) years after commercial oil reserves were confirmed in the Albertine Basin, Uganda still has high hopes for a profitable oil industry that will unlock the country’s potential. A number of key projects are planned to commercialise Uganda’s oil. Central to these are the extraction projects, the Tilenga and Kingfisher, through which between 1.4 to 1.7 billion barrels of oil will be extracted from oil fields in the Lake Albert area. The above barrels of oil will be extracted over a period of 20 to 30 years.

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African Initiative on Food Security and Environment (AIFE-Uganda) and wishes to register its concernsover the signing of three agreements for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project. The agreements were signed on Sunday, 11th April 2021, at a ceremony at State House, Entebbe, in Uganda. The ceremony was participated in by the presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan, respectively, among other Ugandan and Tanzanian government officials.

AIFE-UGANDA PRESS STATEMENT ON SOUTH AFRICAN BANKS OPTING OUT OF EACOP FINANCING.
The Ugandan government alongside Total Energies (U) B.V. and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) (U) Ltd announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Lake Albert oil project yesterday on February 1, 2022. The Lake Albert project consists of the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields as well as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

THE BLOCKING OF OUR EACOP CONFERENCE AND ARREST OF BARIGYE BOB.
In line with our objectives, we organized a one-day event on the oil developments that include the East African Oil crude pipeline (EACOP). This particular event was a public debate on the Environmental, Human rights and Economic impacts of the planned East African Oil Crude pipeline.