The announcement was made by the Minister of the Environment, Ana Paula de Carvalho, within the scope of the first Ordinary Session of the National Commission for Climate Change and Biodiversity, which took place this Tuesday and was guided by the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa.
According to a Government statement, to which VerAngola had access, ENAC "was created by presidential decree to mitigate the effects of climate change, through various actions that are being implemented by different sectors such as Oil, Energy and Water, Transport, Fisheries and Marine Resources, Agriculture and Forestry".
According to the minister, who was speaking to the press about Angola's participation in COP-28, the country "will sign and join an initiative" to use methane, a gas that "in some ways, is more offensive than carbon dioxide carbon, but has a much shorter useful life".
Quoted in the statement, the head of the Environment portfolio said that the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas is "developing the green hydrogen project", which will also be presented at the Conference of the Parties to COP-28, in which the country "has a pavilion, set up in a space of 72 square meters", reads the statement.
At the session, the commission also analyzed the National Master Plan for the Transport and Road Infrastructure Sector, "which provides for the definition of a national strategy for the introduction of electromobility in the country, and on its legal and regulatory framework, a subject that will also be addressed during COP-28".
According to the Minister of Transport, Ricardo de Abreu, the project, whose committee already validated it during the meeting, will be submitted to the Council of Ministers in December or January.
"What the strategy envisages is, let's say, a phased implementation of electromobility, whether from the point of view of infrastructure for charging vehicles, or also from the point of view of motor vehicle segments, seeking to prioritize, obviously, population centers larger and that also have more regular transport and energy distribution conditions", he indicated, cited in the statement.
