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COP29: Angola committed to having an economy less dependent on oil

A senior official from the Ministry of the Environment assured that the country is committed to the transition to an economy less dependent on oil, but ensuring that this is done without harming communities.

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Angola “is a country that is very engaged in the process of decarbonization and just transition, because the biggest contributor to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) comes from oil exploration”, said at COP29 the person responsible for the Mitigation and Adaptation Directorate of the Ministry of the Environment Environment of Angola, Ivone Pascoal.

Recognizing that “the just transition process is very necessary”, the same official stated that the country “is committed to transitioning to an economy that does not depend so much on oil” and to implementing measures that have already led to 60 percent of electrical production be it from renewable, water and solar sources”.

In a debate entitled “Shared Paths: building bridges for a Just Transition in the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries)”, Ivone Pascoal argues that the transition must be made “in the countries’ time and without harming their communities”.

A point at which the representatives of São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil and Portugal converged in the conversation in which, regarding the path to be taken, everyone presented different perspectives.

For the director of Energy at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Natural Resources of São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabriel Maquengo, “the country's island nature increases its vulnerability and makes integration into a network solution difficult”, in addition to “the steps that can be taken depend of financing, which is also not fair.”

For the country that “spends 30 million dollars to generate electricity for the population” there are, for now, “steps that are not possible to take”, but, even so, the Government “has committed to reducing emissions by 27 percent , despite not being considered an emitting country, seeking to decarbonize the electrical system as much as possible”.

Brazil, represented by the Climate Change advisor at the Ministry of the Environment, Alice Amorim, defended “a macro reflection on development models”, in the case of this country, with a special focus “on food systems, agriculture, and deforestation” of the Amazon forest.

And finally, the president of the Common House of Humanity, Paulo Magalhães, recalled that “a just transition always implies a historical temporal perspective” of the issue that “will not be resolved if the legal issue is not resolved”, as it cannot be determined the responsibility of “transmissions over 200 years old” and it being “nobody’s” climate, it is difficult to determine who should pay for decarbonization.

“The atmosphere and oceans are the rubbish dump of humanity”, rather than recognized as “a common good”. And until there is consensus on this recognition, “the problem will not be resolved”, he concluded.

Just transition is a fundamental concept in the fight against climate change, which seeks to transform the current food system into a more sustainable and equitable model, to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis whose consequences affect all countries.

The debate was one of the 55 initiatives scheduled for the Portuguese Pavilion at the 29th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP29), which takes place until the 22nd in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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