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CPLP Leaders Commit Actions to Deal with Climate Emergency

CPLP Leaders Commit Actions to Deal with Climate Emergency

CPLP leaders committed Saturday to speed up the implementation of measures for climate action, particularly those approved by the United Nations, such as strengthening sustainable economic models and energy efficiency.

The heads of state and government of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), gathered at the 13th summit of the community in Luanda, approved the Resolution on Climate Emergency in the CPLP, in which they recognize “the importance of an urgent and global response to the challenge of climate change.

Among the measures are “the diversification and strengthening of sustainable economic models, strengthening the transition to food and agricultural systems and sustainable jobs, as well as accelerating the transformation and energy efficiency, including low-carbon transport and also the promotion of sustainable production and consumption patterns.

The resolution also recommends “the adoption of medium and long-term national strategies for climate action” that promote “increased climate resilience and adaptive capacity of populations” and the “creation of social and economic infrastructures that promote development models to achieve the goal of global carbon neutrality by 2050.

The member countries of the CPLP are thus committed to accelerate the implementation of the decisions taken in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification or the United Nations Environment Assembly, including them in their legal systems.

In this sense, the CPLP leaders affirm the importance of “an urgent and global response to the challenge of climate change,” supporting “with determination and ambition” the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and call for “a worldwide change of course to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5ºC compared to pre-industrial levels.

They also pledge to “accelerate and make more effective cooperation among the member states” of the CPLP to strengthen the capacities of each country in the “development of national strategies and actions for adaptation and mitigation” of climate change.

The heads of state and government reaffirm “the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, caused mainly by fossil fuel consumption in developed countries.

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According to the resolution, a concerted participation of the CPLP countries in the multilateral meetings that precede the United Nations Oceans Conference, to be held in Lisbon in June 2022, is an opportunity “to strengthen environmental policy commitments” and “to ensure a fair, inclusive and sustainable post-pandemic economic recovery.”

The Lusophone heads of state and government also recommended the implementation of the principles defined in the CPLP Partnership for a Garbage-Free Sea, reiterating their concern with the serious economic and environmental impacts of marine debris and called for a joint position statement of the organization to be presented at the 5th Meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNIA), in February 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The resolution states that the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States of the CPLP “are among the countries with the greatest exposure and vulnerability to climate and environmental crises,” which makes it even more urgent to comply with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Development Agenda 2063.

The CPLP includes Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, and East Timor.

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