National Climate Change Act, 2021.

This Act, organized in 7 Parts and 4 Schedules, introduces its scope in Part 1: it is an Act adopted to give the force of law, in Uganda, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement; to provide for climate change response measures; to provide for the participation in climate change mechanisms; to provide for the measuring of emissions, reporting and verification of information; to provide for the institutional arrangements for coordinating and implementing climate change response measures; to provide for the financing for climate change.
Part 2 sets a framework strategy on climate change, which is meant to guide the Government in the planning and budgeting for financing and monitoring of climate change programs and activities. This part specifies a number of relevant issues, from the available knowledge on climate change to the specific needs of vulnerable communities, which must be taken into account in the development of the strategy, as well as its contents and objectives: the impacts and risk of climate change, the mitigation and adaptation priorities, the measures to be adopted to strengthen resilience etc.
Part 3 is dedicated to the climate change mechanism and sets the conditions under which a project proponent may participate in it.
Part 4 of the Act provides for the regulation of the criteria for the measuring of the emissions; for the periodical reporting on the information on mitigation, vulnerabilities and adaptation to the impacts of climate change, on the climate change financing flows and on the expenditures, on emissions and removals of targeted greenhouse gases; and for the verification of information by registered verifiers.
Part 5 is about the institutional arrangements. It identifies the Department responsible for climate change as the institution that must ensure that Uganda meets her obligations and realizes her benefits on climate change and that coordinates, monitors and evaluates Government programmes and actions on climate change. This Part lists in detail the tasks that the Department can count on in the performance of its functions. This Part further describes the Policy Committee on Environment as the institution that advises on the implementation of this Act and on the National Climate Change Policy; makes policies and decisions for the implementation; receives and reviews the biennial report on climate change prepared by the Department and, where necessary, makes recommendations; reviews the national reports for purposes of compliance with international obligations. The National Climate Change Advisory Committee has an advisory role on the assessments of climate change impacts at the sectoral level, on the identification of priorities and strategies for adaptation and mitigation programs as well as on appropriate policies, laws and measures for their effective implementation. The Lead Agencies establish mitigation, adaptation and compatibility standards, measures and performance levels for responding to the climate change matters which relate to their respective mandate. The District department and the District Committee responsible for climate change are designed to be responsible for climate change matters in their district. Lower local government committees responsible for climate change are, finally, appointed by local governments to be responsible for climate change in their local jurisdictions.
Part 6 covers the financing of climate change related activities (research, data collection, implementation of actions and measures, providing grants, loans and incentives) by the Minister responsible for finance.
Part 7 concerns miscellaneous issues, from the duties of private entities and individuals with regard to climate change to confidentiality issues.
Schedule 1 attached to the Act refers to the currency point while the remaining 3 Schedules contain the texts of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.