Mozambique must improve climate change response

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Mozambique must improve climate change response

1:54 CAT | 29 Aug 2025

Photo: Tribunal Administrative de Moçambique

Mozambique needs to strengthen its climate change response, according to the recent national assessment for the 2023/2024 fiscal year conducted by the Administrative Tribunal (TA) using the ClimateScanner tool.

ClimateScanner is a digital tool focused on three assessment dimensions: governance, public policies, and climate finance.

Mozambique’s assessment involved document analysis, public policy reports, interviews with public institutions, analysis of structures, laws, financing mechanisms and coordination in the monitoring of 116 indicators.

In the case of governance, the assessment highlights an outdated legal framework (Environmental Law – Law No. 20/1997 of October 1), fragmented coordination between sectors and growing although not yet systematized civil society participation.

Regarding Public Policies, ClimateScanner found that sectoral plans consider climate inconsistently and less precisely, and observed low coordination with science and climate risks, revealing the need for impact indicators and clear targets.

For the last dimension (Financing), the ClimateScanner assessment found limited inclusion of climate costs in budget plans, with financing mobilization mechanisms still in their infancy, revealing the need for greater transparency and monitoring.

Despite the challenges, the assessment noted some positive aspects of the country’s actions, including growing institutional commitment to climate change, the existence of policies and strategies supporting the issue (such as the Climate Change Policy and the National Adaptation Plan), and participation in international initiatives such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Given this reality, the Administrative Tribunal, which led the assessment, recommends updating national climate legislation, strengthening inter-institutional coordination mechanisms and improving transparency and accountability on climate finance.

The AT also further recommends assessing and identifying real climate finance needs, based on data and scientific evidence and promoting the inclusive participation of civil society, the private sector, and local communities in planning and decision-making processes.

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ClimateScanner was developed by the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) i in cooperation with the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), of which Mozambique is a member through the Administrative Tribunal. The tool was designed to “assess in a standardized manner how countries are dealing with climate change.”

The results of the assessment were presented on Thursday g (28) in Maputo by TA auditor Judite Ali during the first panel of the seminar on the results of the ClimateScanner tool’s application in Mozambique, held under the motto “Monitoring Climate Action with Transparency”.

The event featured panellists from the Ministry of Planning and Development and Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries, as well as from the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil, the Pro-PALOP-East Timor Project and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The ClimateScanner assessment in Mozambique complies with the recommendations of the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29), held in Azerbaijan, in which the TA participated as an external auditor.

At the event, AT president Ana Bié reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to “independently and systematically monitoring the legality and regularity of budget execution, including the climate and environmental action component”.

Globally, 141 countries have already been trained in the implementation of ClimateScanner, with 75 countries having completed their assessments.

The ClimateScanner methodology was developed by 18 audit institutions from various countries, involving more than 70 auditors, according to Carlos Lustosa, from the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), who participated in the event remotely.

Source: AIM Moçambique