Angola hopes that the promises of funding to combat climate change will be fulfilled, so that countries can leverage their actions and adaptation plans, said the environment minister.
Ana Paula de Carvalho was speaking to the Lusa news agency about the expectations surrounding the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-28), which takes place on the 30th of this month in Dubai, and said that Angola has already approved the National Climate Change Strategy (ENAC 2022-2035), which will be presented during COP-28.
“We hope that the promises are kept, firstly the promises of funding so that we can leverage much more of the actions we have underway and also the adaptation plans and others,” said the minister.
The Angolan minister emphasised that this strategy is the basis for the actions, which always have as their starting point a law that establishes the guidelines.
The Angolan environment minister also said that the government was going to draw up a National Adaptation Plan, a process already underway, with actions aimed at adapting to climate change.
“It’s very transversal, it covers various ministries, each with its own action, so that we can reduce the contamination of greenhouse gases,” she added.
On the effects of climate change in Angola, Ana Paula de Carvalho said that the drought in the south of the country is the main cause of this problem, pointing out that Africa is the continent that pollutes the least, but is one of the most affected.
“The issue of drought in the south of Angola is a visible effect of climate change,” she pointed out, noting that Angola, like the rest of Africa, is not among the most industrialised countries.
“So we’re not the ones that pollute the most, but we’ve already suffered, we’ve already experienced this phenomenon,” he noted.
At COP-28, Angola will join an initiative to use methane and present a green hydrogen project, as well as having a 72 square metre pavilion.
