Measuring sustainability in Mozambique: Environmental trends and policy implications
This brief presents an analysis of environmental and infrastructure data in Mozambique from 2000-2022, highlighting deforestation, carbon sequestration, and infrastructure access disparities. It identifies challenges and offers policy recommendations, including strengthening data integration and access, enhancing forest protection in key areas, and building local monitoring capacity.
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- Mozambique experienced significant deforestation between 2000-2022, with provinces losing an average of 21% of their tree coverage, particularly in central regions and Zambezia province.
- Despite deforestation, most regions maintain negative net forest carbon emissions, indicating forests still sequester more carbon than they emit.
- Infrastructure access has improved but shows regional disparities - electricity access increased from 10% to 35% (2000-2017), and piped water from 22.5% to 40%, with the southern region seeing the largest gains.
- Current data fragmentation across government agencies and limited access to administrative data hinders evidence-based environmental policymaking.