Luanda – Angola’s Vice President of Republic Esperança Costa Monday carried out an “intense” diplomatic activity on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
The activity was carried out at the end of the opening ceremony of the event, which included speeches delivered by the host President Addell Fatthah El-Sisi and the UN Secretary General António Guterres.
Esperança Costa held brief courtesy meetings with the President of Cabo Verde José Maria Neves, the minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, the President of the European Council Charles Michel.
The agenda also includes participation in a round table, promoted under the auspices of Kenya, and in the high-level meeting on “International Alliance on Drought Resilience”, at the invitation of the President of Senegal.
Among the topics to be defended by Angola at COP27, emphasis should be placed on the financing of some projects focused on the environment, aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.
Angola will come up with the Blue Carbon projects, which are being designed by the Otchiva Association, with the support of Sonangol and Total, of Photovoltaic Power Plants, the so-called clean energies, by the Ministries of Energy and Water and Natural Resources, Oil and Gas, as well as that of Green Hydrogen.
These projects will be presented at the Congo Basin Stand, which also has the Blue Fund Project.
The sustainability of protected areas and the impact of solid waste on the environment are, among others, the burning issues to be analysed during COP27.
Angola has taken concrete steps to mitigate the effect of climate change, one of which was the Construction of the Cafu Canal, a project that aims to bring water from the Cunene River to the populations of the provinces of Cunene and Namibe, aimed to combat the effects of drought in these regions
Source: Angola Press News Agency