João Lourenço, who was speaking during the leaders' meeting on Climate and Just Transition, considered that the operationalization of the new financing objective, in the order of 1.3 trillion dollars per year until 2035, “will be a true test of the credibility of the international system, imposing that the transition will only be fair if this commitment is honored and accessible to all developing countries”.
For the head of state, COP30 – United Nations Conference on Climate Change – “must reaffirm multilateralism as an instrument of trust, equity and concrete action, with a view to ensuring that the climate transition goes hand in hand with the economic and social transition”.
“We must not forget that climate justice will only be possible if climate financing objectives, technology transfer and the establishment of strategic partnerships converge. Only then will developing countries become more resilient to climate phenomena,” he stressed.
Speaking this Wednesday at the conference, which took place in virtual format, in a joint initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of the Republic of Brazil, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, Lourenço highlighted the actions underway at the level of Angola.
Angola, like many African countries, has suffered from the harmful phenomena resulting from climate change, which has led the country to “take urgent measures” aimed at minimizing its socioeconomic impacts, he stressed.
For the current year, some priority actions were established by the executive, highlighting the presentation, by September, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, of the national contribution, “with ambitious and realistic goals for reducing carbon intensity”.
“We also intend, by September of this year, to submit for the first time to the Framework Convention the National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change, which will reflect the actions to be implemented in the fields of agriculture and food security, water resources, resilient infrastructure, ocean protection and public health”, he assured.
With the purpose of collecting “more reliable and accurate” indicators on climate action at the national level, Angola has set as goals for this year the beginning of the operationalization of the National Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System and the implementation of the Climate and Environmental Observatory.
“Two mechanisms that aim to contribute to the production of updated information on environmental issues in our country,” he noted, hoping that COP30, which marks 10 years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, will bring “tangible results” in terms of making access to climate finance more flexible, so that developing countries can implement their adaptation policies.
The virtual meeting brought together several heads of state and world leaders.
