Ana Paula de Carvalho spoke to the Lusa agency about expectations surrounding the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-28), which will take place on the 30th of this month in Dubai, she said that Angola has already approved the National Change Strategy Climate (ENAC 2022-2035), which will be presented during COP-28.
“We hope that the promises are fulfilled, firstly, the financing promises so that we can leverage much more of the actions we have in progress and also the adaptation plans and others”, said the minister.
The minister stressed that this strategy is the basis for actions, which always have as their starting point a diploma that establishes the guidelines.
The Environment Minister also said that the Government will draw up a National Adaptation Plan, a process already underway, with actions aimed at adapting to climate change.
“It is very transversal, it covers several ministries, each with its own action, in order to reduce the contamination of greenhouse gases”, she added.
Regarding the effects of climate change in Angola, Ana Paula de Carvalho said that the drought in the south of the country is the main face of this problem, remembering that Africa is the continent that pollutes the least, but is one of the most affected.
“The issue of drought in southern Angola is clearly an effect of climate change", she highlighted, remembering that Angola, like the rest of the African continent, is not among the most industrialized countries.
“So we are not the ones who pollute the most, but we have already suffered, we have already experienced this phenomenon firsthand”, she observed.
At COP-28, Angola will join an initiative to use methane and present a green hydrogen project, also featuring a 72 square meter pavilion.
