Otjiwarongo Municipality and the City of  Losheim am See in Germany, have agreed to cooperate in areas such as climate protection, biomass utilization, and the production of biochar. 

The two municipalities signed an agreement for sustainable development and environmental protection. The signing of this agreement comes amidst plans by Otjiwarongo Municipality to set up a Biomass Industrial Park project aimed at producing wood chips, charcoal, char briquettes, animal feed, bio-fuel, and bio-char, which will be exported to Germany. 

"Otjiwarongo and Losheim may be sitting over 8 000 miles away but we saw the need to work together mutually to address challenges facing our two key ports. The sustainable development and protection of our Environment are the key denominators that will bind us. Let us open an honest discussion that will pave the way to a meaningful and mutually beneficial partnership." 

Losheim am See Mayor, Helmut Harth says the agreement is beneficial as it aims to address climate and biodiversity challenges facing nations worldwide.

"Apart from wars and poverty in the world, we are facing big challenges worldwide, first on climate change and the second part is biodiversity and loss of resources, so we want to go all the way with you and together find solutions because everyone is responsible for the problems we face now, so we need to find solution's together." 

Namibia and Germany have been in talks for potential biomass partnerships since 2021, as the latter nation is in the process of phasing out the use of coal and as such it intends to purchase biomass on a large scale.
 
Under the agreement, the two Municipalities will crate frameworks on climate protection, renewable energy, and efficiency as well as biomass conservation and local value chain, sustainable tourism, and development of a resource center.