Luanda – Angola’s Vice President of the Republic Esperança da Costa will travel Saturday (5) to Sharm-el-Sheik (Egypt), to represent the Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, at the 27th Session of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP27), scheduled for 6 – 9 November.
A press note from the Vice-President’s Office states that Angola will reiterate its concern about climate change, one of the greatest challenges that humanity faces, due to the effects this phenomenon has caused.
At this meeting, Egypt assumes the Presidency of the Conference of the Parties (COP27), which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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.
The Angolan delegation to the United Nations Climate Summit will be integrated, among other entities, by the Minister of the Environment Ana Paula Chantre Luna de Carvalho, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Esmeralda Mendonça, and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Angola to Egypt Nelson Cosme.
The delegation will also include representatives from the Civil Affairs Office to the President of the Republic, National Assembly, the Ministries of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Economy and Planning, Fisheries and Marine Resources, Agriculture and Forestry, Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Media, the boards of Sonangol and Endiama, and members of civil society.
Source: Angola Press News Agency